Dapheno Quotes & Sayings

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow. — William James

There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another? — Kristen Callihan

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich. — Rose Macaulay

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them. — Jill Lepore

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Oh, in all things but this,
I know how full of fears a woman is,
And faint at need, and shrinking from the light
Of battle: but once spoil her of her right
In man's love, and there moves, I warn thee well,
No bloodier spirit between heaven and hell. — Euripides

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize. — Robert Browning

My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable. — Brigitte Bardot