Affectedly Quaint Quotes & Sayings

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it. — Ray Blanton

We make needless ado about capital punishment,
taking lives, when there is no life to take. — Henry David Thoreau

Okay, be serious. Aren't you ever afraid of anything?"
"Plenty of time," he said softly.
"Even when what you're afraid of defies all logic?"
"Especially then. It's been my experience that fear doesn't have a set of parameters. We can't turn it off just by realizing we shouldn't be afraid. — Maya Banks

You're scaring the dog, Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in
prisoner of war camps, I've heard. Depersonalization. — Garth Stein

The struggle in the Holy Land is no longer Palestinian versus Israeli, or Muslim versus Jew. It is between those who seek peace and extremists who promote terror. — George W. Bush

If your lives connect with other people you have influence. — Johnny Hunt

He understood very little about this strange situation, and to act in a situation one does not understand is to invite the most terrible consequences. — Stephen King

I love to doubt as well as know."
~ Dante's Inferno, Canto XI, 93: "non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata. — Dante Alighieri

Feeling good about ourselves is a choice. So is feeling guilty. — Melody Beattie

No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her. — Suzanne Collins

Tyler looked after him and then turned to me, cocking his head. I'm not a jealous man, but for you I might make an exception. — Penelope Douglas

If I were you, I'd put up that pistol, Mr. Ottershaw,' said Hugo. 'Were you meaning to challenge the ghost with it? You'd catch cold if you did, you know. It's no crime that I ever heard of to caper about rigged up as a boggard. — Georgette Heyer

Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance in the history of mankind, and for a long space has been signally under the protection of God and a seat of peace, liberty and truth. — John Newton

For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation of a united and Protestant British Isles, which could stand alone, ready to resist invaders. Divine providence had set the islands apart from the rest of the world by encircling seas, 'a little world by itself'. — Susan Brigden

A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are. — Victor Lownes