Brigantes Quotes & Sayings

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception. — Louise Colet

Repressively, Lymond himself answered. "I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody 'got' me," he said. — Dorothy Dunnett

And yet. And yet. If asked - if pressed - Honora would have to say she is strangely content. It's an odd feeling that she cannot describe to anyone - not to her mother and certainly not to Sexton, whose unhappiness seems to have no bounds, whose unhappiness is defined now by what he does not have, which is almost everything. He will always, in his mind, be the salesman who no longer has anything to sell. A man who longs for the open road but who cannot ever take it. Whereas Honora, oddly, now has more purpose than she ever did before. She is a dutiful wife who tends to her husband in spite of his weaknesses. She is a woman with ingenuity. She is a woman without illusions. She is a woman who, above all, is too busy trying to make a go of it to fret about her marriage. — Anita Shreve

If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways? — Chief Dan George

Venus favors the bold. — Ovid

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect. — John Lennon

Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to. — Garcelle Beauvais

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders. — Martin Mull

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world. — Alan W. Watts