Top 31 Vestal Quotes
#1. How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
Alexander Pope
#2. They may seize
On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand
And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,
Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
William Shakespeare
#3. The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. Romulus and Remus, twin sons of dark Mars and a human vestal, sucking at the dugs of a wolf bitch.
Jack Williamson
#5. Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
William Shakespeare
#6. Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.
Nathalia Crane
#7. Nature had given me a square jaw, a cleft chin, a dark mane, eyes that could bring a vestal virgin to her knees and a cock that could keep her there.
Michael Schiefelbein
#8. Oh, well. Just twist the first thing you can grab, as the High Priest said to the vestal virgin.
Terry Pratchett
#9. And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.
Thomas Hardy
#10. Live within and without your core of being.
Truth Devour
#11. Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.
Bill Shuster
#12. I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.
Vestal McIntyre
#13. I wondered what would happen to him, and what would happen to me. The world rolls on and on. We cannot imagine it without us, even as we dream of death.
Shawn Vestal
#14. A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world
something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear
is nothing but a cheap hustle.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#15. Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.
Sara Zarr
#16. FOR MOST OF MY LIFE I couldn't have found Idaho on a map. I had no picture of the place in my mind, nothing like a California beach or a Texas oil field. Potato trees, is what I thought on the drive out. Rows
Shawn Vestal
#17. I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.
Vestal McIntyre
#18. Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common.
Vestal McIntyre
#19. London is like a collection of hills. There are lots of desirable spots and lots of space in between. The idea of elbowing people out of your way to get somewhere - literally or metaphorically - seems foreign here.
Vestal McIntyre
#20. if everything finally comes down to inward-looking self-interest, to getting more for oneself, to accumulating wealth or power, very little is left for other motivations that can be described as true, noble, good, and lovely.
John Bolt
#21. I'm nobody's motivational speaker, but if I've learned anything it's this: Always try to fuck someone you think won't fuck you. Just try. Chances are decent that you're overestimating their taste or intelligence.
Shawn Vestal
#22. By lunchtime, the glitter was flaking off my mask. Three pearls dropped off and rolled down the tiled hallway.
Tessa Gratton
#24. Love gives far more than it ever takes. And love makes us want to give.
Nalini Singh
#25. When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.
Vestal McIntyre
#26. I was desperate for him to hear me. What was my existence otherwise? I tried and tried to make a ripple in the world. To be there.
Shawn Vestal
#27. She had lived in Iceland from birth, a total of 36 years, without knowing that she had the right to live, work and vote in the USA.
Gudjon Bergmann
#28. When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.
Nirmala Srivastava
#29. An investigator has to have a defense arsenal. Heck, every woman alive should have one if she wants to stay that way.
Deb Baker
#31. Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn't just sad and slow music. It's a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the rising sun.
Dave Matthes
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