Comtesse Du Quotes & Sayings

That people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. — Daniel Kahneman

The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and prostitutes, actresses and politicians: the Duchesse de Crequy-Montmorency and Madame Roland; Madame du Barry and Madame Brissot; the random debris of a sunken ship thrown together for a moment by the tide of fortune and a moment later violently dispersed. All of them were already ghosts, standing on the shoreline of the last limits of life, waiting their turn for Charon and his grim tumbrel to ferry them across the Styx. — Stanley Loomis

It meant nothing. Some people are like that: everything comes out like a lie. Not that they're brilliant liars, just that they're useless at telling the truth. You get left with no way to tell what's the real fake and what's the fake one. — Tana French

Art is a song of the soul that is sung by the light of the heart with the color of emotion and appreciation. — Debasish Mridha

I like to get everything done during the early morning hours and the early part of the day. — Sune Rose Wagner

When you're a regular on your show, that's your family. When people come in and out, it doesn't mean that you don't embrace them, but they have to leave. — Melinda McGraw

No. I'm not hot, and I don't want to do the Squeaky Dance." Simon sighed. This day was full of disappointments. — Anne Bishop

I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks. — Carmen Ejogo

I am a runner. Not an actual runner, like with shoes and sweat. Instead, I specialize in leaving uncomfortable situations with alarming speed. Some people need closure, I need space. — Emma Nichols

There're stranger things on this earth than we can ever figure out if we had a hundred lifetimes. — Robert McCammon

Ignominy thirsts for respect. — Victor Hugo

Peter?"
He couldn't look at her. Instead, he stared down at his
poisoned arm.
"I could do terrible things to you," he cautioned her
sadly. "I have to leave you. You won't be safe with me until
I learn to control myself."
"I'll wait for you."
Finally, when he felt the strength of his conviction, of
her conviction, he turned to her, allowing her in for just a
moment.
"I thought you'd say that. — Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment. — T. S. Eliot