Byatt Locksmith Quotes & Sayings

Think before you speak, because words can really hurt, and you can't take back what you said, because the damage is already done. — M. Clarke

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience. — Euripides

Beirut has survived for thousands and thousands of years by spreading her beautiful legs for every army within smelling distance. — Rabih Alameddine

The day after the British entered the war Henry James wrote a friend:
The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness ... is a thing that so gives away the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be, with whatever abatement, gradually bettering, that to have to take it all now for what the treacherous years were all the while really making for and meaning is too tragic for any words. — Paul Fussell

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I have discovered that of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls' boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. — Olive Schreiner

Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. — Rebecca Solnit

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? — Lily Tomlin