Billingsgate Quotes & Sayings

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply. — Marquis De Sade

A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it. — Sloane Crosley

Where there's law there's injustice, — Leo Tolstoy

Our actions will be at measured pace given the current market turmoil. — Raghuram Rajan

I have heard of the stars, of the play of light on the waves
these i would like to see
but far more than sight
i wish for my ears to be opened
the voice of a friend
the imaginations of mozart
life without these is darker by far
than blindness — Helen Keller

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush! — Agatha Christie

Bunches of flowers and kisses, their bodies locked together by a stopwatch.
Descriptive on an affair — Susan Richards Shreve

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening. — Evan Esar

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile. — Umberto Eco

The only thing to see is the obligatory third-world Coke billboard, ironic in exact proportion to the distance from its proper American context. This one says COKE - MAKE IT REAL. Just after the Coke sign there is a contrary sign, an indication that irony is not a currency in Liberia. It is worn by a girl who leans against the exit in a T-shirt that says THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD. — Zadie Smith

But when a cut is deep, it's still just flesh beneath. — Veronica Rossi

The best aphorisms are ... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs. — William Rounseville Alger

I put my hands on my hips, not caring if I sounded like a Billingsgate fishwife. "Yes, it was a dangerous thing to do, but as it seems to have escaped your attention, I remind you I am above thirty years of age, of sound body and mind, and in control of my own fortune. That means," I said, moving closer still, poking his chest for emphasis, "I am mistress of myself and answer to no one. — Deanna Raybourn

If I give her the truth, then maybe I am released of its obligations. I can pass the truth to its rightful owner, and the frozen stars in my chest might finally ignite. — Nic Pizzolatto

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. — Horace

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten. — Anne Frank