Best Dowager Grantham Quotes & Sayings

Be happy in front of people who hate you. That way they know they haven't gotten to you. Plus, it pisses them off like crazy. — Jenny Lawson

[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep. — Thomas More

I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot,' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved. — Eleanor Catton

More dangerous than guns or bombs are hatred, lack of compassion, and lack of respect for the rights of others. As long as hatred dwells in the human mind, real peace is impossible. — Dalai Lama XIV

Gay people don't actually try to convert people. That's Jehovah's Witnesses you're thinking of. — Tina Fey

A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large. — Alyce Cornyn-Selby

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal. — Olivier Theyskens

The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you. — Claudia Rankine

A customer, not a regular who would have known better, had complained about the head on his beer. When Featherlight, purple-faced and twitching, had asked what was wrong with having a head on beer, the customer had retorted, not unreasonably, that everything was wrong when the head had once belonged to a mouse. — Wilkie Martin

One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already. — Timothy Keller

Mrs. Earwig (pronounced Ar-wige, at least by Mrs. Earwig) believed in shiny wands, and magical amulets and mystic runes and the power of the stars, while Granny Weatherwax in cups of tea, dry biscuits, washing every morning in cold water and, well ... mostly she believed in Granny Weatherwax. — Terry Pratchett