Bannisters Mollymook Quotes & Sayings

I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. — William Shakespeare

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together. — Noel Coward

Mike wished Mr. Burden had chosen another time to be murdered. He was beginning to see that the hour of dressing for dinner might have been expressly designed for persons who need a quiet spell for the commission of crime. — Eilis Dillon

Let moral ideals remain merely for those poor anaemic creatures of starved desire whose grasp is weak. Those who can desire with all their soul and enjoy with all their heart, those who have no hesitation or scruple, it is they who are the anointed of Providence. Nature spreads out her riches and loveliest treasures for their benefit. They swim across streams, leap over walls, kick open doors, to help themselves to whatever is worth taking. In such a getting one can rejoice; such wresting as this gives value to the thing taken. Nature — Rabindranath Tagore

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. — Henry Louis Gates

The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow ... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on. — Barbara Kingsolver

If you want to harass someone, scare someone, terrorize someone, you might want to pick someone that doesn't have a pissed off boyfriend waiting around the corner ... — Jay Crownover

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. — Alfred North Whitehead

One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading. — Agatha Christie