Vassal Quotes

#1. When we fall in love the first time, we don't know anything. We risk a lot less than we do if we choose to love again. (Xander)

Ally Condie

#2. But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.

Viktor E. Frankl

#3. 'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.

William Shakespeare

#4. I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

Lord Byron

#5. I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

Arthur Rimbaud

#6. There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer.

Dejan Stojanovic

#7. Armed forces were no longer primarily feudal levies serving under a vassal's obligation who went home after forty days; they were recruited bodies who served for pay.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. When I laugh hard, sometimes I wet my pants, but I'm always relieved because that means I'm having a good time.

Ellie Kemper

#10. Rule was still personal, deriving from the fief of land and oath of homage. Not citizen to state but vassal to lord was the bond that underlay political structure.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#11. To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

Mary Ellen Chase

#12. Mother' (with a short scornful laugh), 'you will make me confess. The only time I saw Miss Hale, she treated me with a haughty civility which had a strong flavour of contempt in it. She held herself aloof from me as if she had been a queen, and I her humble, unwashed vassal. Be easy, mother.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#13. The mind's only perfect vassal.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#14. No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

Felix Adler

#15. You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses.

Sanford I. Weill

#16. If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

S.I. Hayakawa

#17. That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

William Shakespeare

#18. That's right,' Mel said. 'Some vassal would come along and spear the bastard in the name of love. Or whatever the fuck it was they fought over in those days.'
Same things we fight over these days,' Terri said.
Laura said, 'Nothing's changed.

Raymond Carver

#19. Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

Ogden Nash

#20. I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

Ursula Andress

#21. The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#22. Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.

Thomas Paine

#23. A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you

Francoise Sagan