Top 57 Villiers Quotes
#1. Three years is a long time." "It is to us. But in the scheme of things - not at all. I mean," said Andy reasonably, "look at some poor dumb bunny like Sabine Ingersoll or that idiot James Villiers. Forrest fucking Longstreet.
Donna Tartt
#2. Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)
Robert Ludlum
#3. If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred.
Shahid Afridi
#4. I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.
Eloisa James
#5. Virginity, like many things connected to men, was obviously vastly over-rated. And frankly, so was sexual intimacy. No wonder Villiers didn't care if she'd had previous experiences. It was all a matter of a minute at most.
Eloisa James
#6. AB de Villiers reminds me of my young days, What a Player!
Chris Gayle
#7. Put those pistols down at once,' he said coldly. 'Do not you know it is very rude to point a pistol at a person you do not mean to kill? For shame, Villiers. Where were you brought up?
Patrick O'Brian
#8. She leaped away from Villiers the moment the note sounded in the air, sadness falling from her like a discarded cloak.
Eloisa James
#9. AB de Villiers is the definition of a Cricketing Genius
Michael Vaughan
#10. International terrorism needs money to keep going," Villiers said. "A great deal of money, not only for arms, which are expensive, but to fund operations. Drugs are a ready source of that kind of money,
Jack Higgins
#11. O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!
Theresa Villiers
#12. A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.
Theresa Villiers
#14. Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.
George Villiers
#16. I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.
AB De Villiers
#17. Kisses are but like sands of gold and silver, found upon the ground which are not worth much themselves but as they promise a mine near too be dig'd.
Theresa Villiers
#19. Every human occupation has it repertoire of stock phrases, within which every man twists and turn until his death. His vocabulary, which seems so lavish, reduces itself to a hundred routine formulas at most, which he repeats over and over.
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#21. What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
George Villiers
#23. No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives
AB De Villiers
#25. I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#26. Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
George Villiers
#27. I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#29. The trouble with water-and there is trouble with water-is that they're not making any more of it. They're not making any less, mind, but no more either. There is the same amount of water in the planet now as there was in prehistoric times.
Marq De Villiers
#30. The Android, as we've said, is only the first hours of Love, immobilized, the hour of the ideal made eternal prisoner
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#32. Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured! ... What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#33. If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well.
Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#35. I really hate it when I can't score runs from a ball.
AB De Villiers
#36. Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage.
Aldous Huxley
#37. The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
George Villiers
#38. There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.
Alan Villiers
#40. Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life.
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#41. The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
Alan Villiers
#42. Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time.
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#44. I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare; And all this I can do, because I dare.
Theresa Villiers
#45. She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.
Theresa Villiers
#49. What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?
Theresa Villiers
#50. Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise
severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming
beautiful, but dead.
Charles Villiers Stanford
#51. We recognised that just putting more flights and more passengers into the skies over southeast England wasn't worth the environmental costs we-re paying.
Theresa Villiers
#54. Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.
Marq De Villiers
#57. The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie in the Heavens?
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
