Clutterthorpe Quotes & Sayings

Jilly Beaton's a vicious cow. Inspectors love her, but she's a cow when they've gone."
"Back home in Argentina," sniffed Isabella, "cows are very important, but they know their place. — Gabriella Poole

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom. — Margaret Sanger

What I see is trying to make sure that everybody thinks you have more than what you actually have. What's the point if you actually don't have it? If you don't have it, then you don't have it. Have what you have. Enjoy that ... The craft is everything. Don't be afraid of not being the wealthiest person in the room. Be the smartest person in the room. Be the slickest person in the room. Be the most creative person in the room. Be the most entertaining person in the room. Just be in the room. — Jill Scott

The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it. — Kevin Rudd

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges. — Dan Aykroyd

He was leaving my stepmother for a sailboat. Not that I blamed him. A sailboat would at least be useful. — Darynda Jones

I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are the men who dig up London with electric drills. Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, people will stand there for hours on end, ear drums splitting. Why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while watching other people work. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. — Frida Kahlo

In practice. . .being human was all I knew. The future beyond that was a big, dark abyss that I couldn't know until I leaped into it. — Stephenie Meyer

Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. — Deborah Harkness

Mrs. Clutterthorpe, I can hardly think of any fate worse than becoming the mother of six. Unless perhaps it were plague, and even then I am persuaded a few disfiguring buboes and possible death would be preferable to motherhood. — Deanna Raybourn

I am quite determined to be mistress of my own fate, Mrs. Clutterthorpe, but I do sympathize with how strange it must sound to you. It is not your fault that you are entirely devoid of imagination. I blame your education — Deanna Raybourn