Delille Doyenne Quotes & Sayings

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking. — Tim O'Reilly

I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know. — Manolo Blahnik

When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you've done is shattering. One of the advantages of having experience as a writer - and there aren't many, in face I can't think of any other - is that you know you can make the horrible thing better, then you can make it better again, then you can make it better again. And you may not be able to make it good, but at least it's not going to be what you're looking at now. — Deborah Eisenberg

Silliness is the perfect spice on any personality. — Jury Nel

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.
Jane Austen's Letters August 1796 — Jane Austen

Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions — Leonardo Sciascia

Here's a tip: never get drunk while wearing a hooded sweatshirt. You will eventually think there's someone right behind you. — Dave Attell

In Sweden, self-sufficiency and autonomy is all; [interpersonal] debt of any kind, be it emotional, a favor, or cash, is to be avoided at all cost. The Swedes don't even like to owe a round of drinks. — Michael Booth

If we find ourselves increasing beyond example in numbers, in strength, in wealth, in knowledge, in everything which promotes human and social happiness, let us ever remember our dependence for all these on the protection and merciful dispensations of Divine Providence. — John Tyler

Is he making you happy? I don't mean some of the time, on rare occasions, not that often, "but the good still outweighs the bad." Does he make it clear in his actions every day that your happiness is important to him? — Greg Behrendt

When the day is done the most important thing is loving people and sharing love. — Madonna Ciccone

I push everyone I love away."
He shrugged.
"I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister. — Kristin Cashore