Davoir Quotes & Sayings

Deeds, not words shall speak to me. — John William Fletcher

Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because she is a woman, Judith cheerfully applies for admission at, let's call it, Smithcliff, a prestigious women's college. She is denied admission on the grounds that
the dorms and classrooms can't
accommodate wheelchairs, that her speech pattern would interfere with her elocution lessons, and that her presence would upset the other students. There is also the suggestion that she is not good marriage material for the men at the elite college to which Smithcliff is a bride-supplying "sister school." The letter inquires as to why she hasn't been institutionalized.
When she goes to the administration building to protest the decision, she can't get up the flight of marble steps on the Greek Revival building. This edifice was designed to evoke a connection to the Classical world, which practiced infanticide of disabled newborns. — Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

I collect ex-boyfriends
and more than five, at last count. — Jasper Fforde

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. — Samuel Butler

Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven. — Euripides

I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam. — James Altucher

All fiction is based on fact and moves into fantasy. It is the writer's task to make the unbelievable believable. — Chloe Thurlow