Felicitated Quotes & Sayings

Abstractedly speaking, government, as well as liberty, is good; yet could I, in common sense, ten years ago, have felicitated France on her enjoyment of a government (for she then had a government) without inquiry what the nature of that government was, or how it was administered? Can I now congratulate the same nation upon its freedom? Is it because liberty in the abstract may be classed amongst the blessings of mankind, that I am seriously to felicitate a mad-man, who has escaped from the protecting restraint and wholesome darkness of his cell, on his restoration to the enjoyment of light and liberty? Am I to congratulate a highwayman and murderer, who has broke prison, upon the recovery of his natural rights? This would be to act over again the scene of the criminals condemned to the galleys, and their heroic deliverer, the metaphysic knight of the sorrowful countenance. — Edmund Burke

I am shocked - excessively shocked! Your father would have been very glad to have left his ring to
Martin, let me tell you, only he thought it not right to leave it away from the heir!"
"Was it indeed a personal bequest?" inquired Gervase, interested. "That certainly must be held to enhance its value. It becomes, in fact, a
curio, for it must be quite the only piece of unentailed property which my father did bequeathe to me. I shall put it in a glass cabinet."
Martin, reddening, said: "I see what you are at! I'm not to be blamed if my father preferred me to you!"
"No, you are to be felicitated," said Gervase. — Georgette Heyer

There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth — Carl Henegan

Little I'd ever teach a son, but hitting, Shooting, war, hunting, all the arts of hurting. — Wilfred Owen

I've always been very driven and knew that to get where I wanted to go, I could never give up. — Diane Hendricks

A place is only as good as the people you know in it. It's the people that make the place. — Pittacus Lore

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight ... every word is war. — Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

We had no choice. We ran into darkness of the early morning leaving everything behind. — Lissa Price

so the lion fell in love with the lanb — Stephanie Meyer