The Ladies Paradise Quotes

#1. As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.

Robert Heilbroner

#2. Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

Publilius Syrus

#3. When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.

Tinie Tempah

#4. His projected face bony and intense, Garth peered out of his booth like an aroused turtle.

Philip K. Dick

#5. Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation,

Patrick Stewart

#6. To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.

Georges Perec

#7. In terms of what's going to actually happen to me in the story, down towards the end of the season, I'm dying to know, but I just don't ask. If it's something that I think will really affect how I play it and it's information I need to know, than I'll ask, for sure.

Peter Jacobson

#8. Laughter is the lubrication to soothe your soul.

Thomas F. Shubnell

#9. Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Very well, sir. A woman's opinion, however humble she may be, is always worth listening to, if she's got any sense...If you put yourself in my hands, I shall certainly make a decent man of you.

Emile Zola

#11. For hundreds of years the monks have held the pen, and what they have written is what we take to be our history, but I do not believe it really is. I believe they have suppressed the history they don't like, and written one that is favourable to Rome.' Henry

Hilary Mantel