Dowager Countess Violet Quotes & Sayings

We are inviting you to invest yourself through the resources that God has given you - your energy, your prayers and your money - in this work to which God has called us. — Henri

It just gets hard, always being someone's second choice — Morgan Matson

The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life. — Nick Vujicic

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life. — Swami Vivekananda

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all. — Jean-Francois Millet

By half-past one the last drop of pleasure had evaporated, leaving nothing but headaches. We perceived that we were not splendid inhabitants of a splendid world, but a crew of underpaid workmen grown squalidly and dismally drunk. We went on swallowing the wine, but it was only from habit, and the stuff seemed suddenly nauseating ...
Most of my Saturday nights went in this way. On the whole, the two hours when one was perfectly and wildly happy seemed worth the subsequent headache. For many men in the quarter, unmarried and with no future to think of, the weekly drinking-bout was the one thing that made life worth living. — George Orwell

Bless be the ones who serve others. They are the ones who find heaven on earth. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Violet pulled a face. "Of course I have great ambition that my children marry well and happily, but I am not the sort who'd marry her daughter off to a seventy-year-old man just because he was a duke!"
"Did the dowager countess do that?" Benedict couldn't recall any seventy-year-old dukes making recent trips to the altar.
"No," Violet admitted, "but she would. Whereas I - "
Benedict bit back a smile as his mother pointed to herself with great flourish.
"I would allow my children to marry paupers if it would bring them happiness."
Benedict raised a brow.
"They would be well-principled and hardworking paupers, of course," Violet explained. "No gamblers need apply."
Benedict didn't want to laugh at his mother, so instead he coughed discreetly into his handkerchief. — Julia Quinn

Violet, the Dowager Countess: 'I have plenty of friends I don't like. — Jessica Fellowes

Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel? — Jane Austen

Resting, recuperating, moping, it's all the same. — Maria V. Snyder

She smiled serenely. "I shall put aside my feelings for the dowager countess if you care for one of her daughters ... " She looked up hopefully. "Do you care for one of her daughters?"
"I have no idea," Benedict admitted. "I never got her name. Just her glove."
Violet gave him a stern look. "I'm not even going to ask how you obtained her glove."
"It was all very innocent, I assure you."
Violet's expression was dubious in the extreme. "I have far too many sons to believe that," she muttered. — Julia Quinn

I wanted to be successful, not famous. — George Harrison

Be firm. Be strong. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The radical elimination of magic from the world allowed no other psychological course than the practice of worldly asceticism. Since — Max Weber

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I will be with you when you pass through the waters, and when you pass through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. Isaiah 43:2 — Beth Moore

Violet, the Dowager Countess: I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden. — Jessica Fellowes