The History Boys Dakin Quotes

#1. Know your mind and see your nature.

Red Pine

#2. Helpless as a burning city, / how can I ignore that the extremes / of pleasure are fire storms / that leave a vacuum into which / dangerous feelings (tenderness, / affection, l o v e) may rush / like gale force winds.

Marge Piercy

#3. With Sue as companion he could have renounced his ambitions with a smile. Without her it was inevitable that the reaction from the long strain to which he had subjected himself should affect him disastrously.

Thomas Hardy

#4. A plague on both your houses.

William Shakespeare

#5. The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#6. You are where your brain is but not where a front-page headline is.

Santosh Kalwar

#7. In a revolution, one triumphs or dies.

Che Guevara

#8. He nodded. "You're right. It's probably for the best."
Bitterness rose in my throat. I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.

Mary E. Pearson

#9. It appears that having a close walk with the Lord is not religiously acceptable.

Gene Edwards

#10. Learn to think continentally.

Alexander Hamilton

#11. I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

Naomie Harris

#12. True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does

Torquato Tasso

#13. You kind of can't help who you'll fall in love with. I'd date someone who isn't in the business in a heartbeat.

Selena Gomez

#14. How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.

Truman Capote