The Dressmaker S Secret Quotes

#1. Nothing good in this world comes free! For everything there's a payment of time or money or soul!

Kellyn Roth

#2. If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah's flood.

Kellyn Roth

#3. Norway has a relationship with the EU which is very close. It has to accept most EU rules. It has to pay EU membership fees. It has free movement of people just like other EU countries, but it's not actually in the EU.

Tim Harford

#4. Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don't have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.

Cassandra Clare

#5. Ghosts!" gasped Alice. "Real, live ghosts?"

"No! Not 'real, live ghosts!' Spooky, dead ghosts!

Kellyn Roth

#6. The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#7. I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.

Kellyn Roth

#8. The only regret I have in dying is if it is not for love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure the comfort.

Humphy Davy

#10. I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

Kellyn Roth

#11. I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

Paula Poundstone

#12. God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

J.D. Greear

#13. Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.

Kellyn Roth

#14. We were blessed, and with blessing comes responsibility.

Michaela DePrince

#15. Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

Albert Pike

#16. I guess there were two types of people in the world, those who sat around a fire, staring into the flames, and those who started the fire.
Seth and I started the fire, and then we danced around it.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#17. When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.

Patricia Kaas

#18. [A]ll these years, I had been telling myself that my feelings for you were a juvenile infatuation; a dream inspired by my secret hope that somewhere there could be a creature who could love me.

Kellyn Roth