Fabliau Ideas Quotes & Sayings

A magnificent cad, you mean. He's positively gaping at your bosom, Lyddie!" Mariah said in a scandalized whisper. "I swear he's undressing you with his eyes!"
Lydia's lip twitched. "How lurid you sound. I really must censure your reading material."
"There can be no doubt you have his attention now," Mariah giggled. — Victoria Vane

Everyone has their divine calling and purpose — Sunday Adelaja

I'm never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found. Maybe the friend will talk about you sometimes, to other friends that live around him, and then that's almost as good as being there yourself. You're in several places at once! In fact, my daughter, I would even go so far as to say that the further away your friends, and the more spread out they are the better your chances of going safely through the world ... — Helen Oyeyemi

I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are not what they might be. It begins with a sense of a lack, of something missing, and that provokes a series of questions. — Simon Critchley

Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth. — William Peter Hamilton

The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that. — Carine Roitfeld

Reading has always been the great love of my life. — Darren Shan

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. — Josh Billings

Righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness. — Lloyd Alexander