Candaules Wife Quotes & Sayings

That won't excuse me for presuming to give my heart to you. It's not your fault you broke it. — Julie Berry

Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences. — Herodotus

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic. — Zig Ziglar

In the nature of the case, the best witness to God's existence, the truth of His revelation, and the basis of a genuinely sound defense of the Christian faith would be God Himself. — Greg L. Bahnsen

Every living creature breathes. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn. — Michael Ondaatje

The world might not see it or think of it,
But you are enough to have someone
sacrificed for you.
That should tell you that not every hardship
you go through is permanent,
It is just temporary.
It's like a starter,
You still have the dessert to enjoy. — Nomthandazo Tsembeni

To provide background and physical description and all the rest is of course vital to fiction, but vital only insofar as such detail is in the service of a richly imagined story, rather than in the service of good botany or good philosophy or good geography. — Tim O'Brien

Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time. — Guy Finley

I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not above tweaking reality and making something up. I don't think there are any rules in art. It's not so much what you see as it is the significance you, the artist, see in it. — Keith Carter

Coral slows us down. She has no visible injuries, now that she has bathed and had various cuts and scrapes bandaged, but she is obviously weak. She falls behind as soon as we begin to move, and Alex hangs back with her. In the early part of the day, even though I try to ignore it, I can hear the ribbon of their conversation weaving up and through the other voices. Once, I hear Alex burst out laughing. In — Lauren Oliver