Derbyshire Map Quotes & Sayings

Hitchhiking and sleeping in cemeteries. (He explained to me that they're very safe, no one goes there at night.) — Isabel Allende

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be. — Thomas Sprat

The landscape always changed, but the magic never did. The tales were told to children wrapped up in sheets, to frighten or to soothe, but those doing the telling didn't have to believe. Perhaps it was just as well that they didn't, for the stories got so much of it wrong. They always do. The legends told of dragons and faeries, of locked towers and imprisoned princesses, and this was true enough. — Emma Trevayne

Ninety-seven is my lucky number. — Antonia Fraser

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure. — Cass Gilbert

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. — Jennifer Crusie