Afdeling Q Quotes & Sayings

One time I told her that she reminded me of that charming tale, the one with the red shoes."
Helen had always hated that story, in which a little girl who had dared to wear red shoes to her confirmation had been doomed to dance in them until she died. "You're referring to the one by Hans Christian Andersen? It's a morality tale about the wages of sin, is it not?"
His smile faded, and his gaze returned to hers, now appraising rather than dismissive. "I confess, I don't recall the moral of the story."
"No doubt it's been a long time since you've read it." Helen made her face into the inscrutable mask that had always annoyed the twins and provoked them to call her a sphinx. "The red shoes become instruments of death, after a girl yields to temptation. — Lisa Kleypas

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. — Franz Kafka

The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield. — Jean-Baptiste Say

There was a little girl,
When she was good, she was very, very good.
But when she was bad, she was horrid. — Jun Mochizuki

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling. — Leo Tolstoy

It is reasonable not to make any budget adjustments in the first quarter of 2015 — Tatyana Golikova

Inventors don't have time for married life. — Nikola Tesla

True kindness ennobles the giver — Jocelyn Murray

Every banker knows that if he has to prove he is worthy of credit, in fact his credit is gone. — Walter Bagehot

Her kind was supposed to be irresistibly alluring to humans. She was the humanoid equivalent of a Venus flytrap. — Sarah Beth Durst

I ran for political office in the Hamptons once in a war I was having with the village. I came in, there were four people running, and I came in around third. It was over my food market - they arrested me. I just wanted to go for office because I thought it would be an interesting to do. — Jerry Della Femina

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. — Hosea Ballou