De Scudery Quotes & Sayings

People who have no idea it's me when they first see me playing something, and later they realize, 'That's her from whatever it is,' it's a great compliment that they can forget. — Linda Cardellini

Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life. — Madeleine De Scudery

The Vicar's talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of possibilities which we rather hastily arrive at as an inference from our own failure. — George Eliot

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing. — Madeleine De Scudery

Vote for Toby. Vote for Toby. Hey, baby. How you doin'?" Slight pause. "Vote for Toby. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you. — Oren Peli

I felt that I committed myself too much. I promised too much. But that way it's exciting. — Elaine Stritch

A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for. — Madeleine De Scudery

Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently. — Madeleine De Scudery

It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others. — Madeleine De Scudery

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. — Madeleine De Scudery

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes. — Madeleine De Scudery

Everybody's forgiven you but you. And you are so far behind us." "You might be surprised about that. — Lev Grossman

The only rose without thorns is friendship. — Madeleine De Scudery

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. — Madeleine De Scudery

Everything is fair in love and art. — Christos Tsiolkas

Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over. — P. J. O'Rourke