Strumpet's Quotes

#1. She had written Darcy the letter and posted it from her husband's tenth-story office while he was away in some strumpet's bed. And then she'd transformed herself into a bird, and then an anvil, and then a corpse.

Thomas Mullen

#2. Tis the strumpet's plague
To beguile many, and be beguiled by one.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#3. I like that word," Pandora mused. "Strumpet. It sounds like a saucy musical instrument." "It

Lisa Kleypas

#4. look here you old, painted hussy! I am neither a tart, a trollop, nor am I a strumpet! I am a lady of refined breeding and culture, so bugger off, before this little poppet pops you one in that ugly, wrinkled mug!

L.T. Suzuki

#5. Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. Then, you were always captivated by self-sacrifice. However admirable, your eagerness to give your life over to another person may have been due in some measure to the fact that when your life was wholly in your lap you didn't know what to do with it. Self-sacrifice was an easy way out.

Lionel Shriver

#7. There's much to be said for a good strumpet, Ned," Simon rejoined. "Indeed I think you might be sadly in need of some good, hard, thorough strumping to re-order your mind.

Victoria Vane

#8. I believe theology should be about one's way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one's profound existence in the world.

Namsoon Kang

#9. Never was strumpet faire.

George Herbert

#10. Undoubtedly the dress of a virtuous and godly woman must differ from that of a strumpet.

John Calvin

#11. Now, again, he paused, and into the breach thus made, leapt Ambition, the harridan, and Poetry, the witch, and Desire of Fame, the strumpet; all joined hands and made of his heart their dancing ground.

Virginia Woolf

#12. Commitment ... is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.

James M. Paramore

#13. O honorable strumpet

William Shakespeare

#14. Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

James Connolly

#15. My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.

Nathan Kress

#16. My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.

Edward P. Jones

#17. At some point the talk got heated, and Paolo called Mother a strumpet, for which Daddy was said to have stomped a serious mudhole in Paolo's ass.

Mary Karr

#18. My brow still burns from the kiss of the queen; I have dreamed in the grotto where the siren swims . . .

Gerard De Nerval