Allenbury Collection Quotes & Sayings

Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing. — Cynthia Heimel

It was almost as if he had been given a glimpse of what it was like to be human. It wasn't too bad, really; he wouldn't even mind being human on full-time basis — Nick Hornby

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies. — Grace Metalious

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different. — Steven Pinker

My eye-balls are glass,
my limbs marble,
my face fixed
in its marble mask. — Hilda Doolittle

The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance. — John McGahern

At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood. — Edward Gibbon