Fosco Quotes & Sayings

Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that. — Kevin Grevioux

Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career? — Wilkie Collins

Some people know they are condemned; some have time to pray, and others die struggling and screaming, fighting to their last breath. An irate killer stamps in to the tribunal - "Use your heads, give us a bloody chance, can't you? We can't keep up." So the prisoners are waved away airily by their judges - "Go, you're free." Outside the door a steady man waits to fell them. Freedom is the last thing they know. — Hilary Mantel

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. — Mason Cooley

The Day of Trouble is Near — P.J. Parker

My flower is ephemeral, thought little prince. And she only has four thorns for protection! And I've left her all alone! That — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it? I'm the one really telling it, after all. — Anne Rice

In 2004, I was on the West End stage in The Woman In White, and for every show I had to climb into a fat suit to play the obese Count Fosco. It was hard work, and unbearably hot, but I sailed through because I'd always kept myself fit. — Michael Crawford

Success depends on your attitude; happiness depends on your gratitude. — Debasish Mridha

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
— Robert M. Sapolsky

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will. — Margaret Atwood

Give me all your broken pieces, and I'll love each one. — L.M. Lee

Tell him next, that crimes cause their own detection. There's another bit of copy-book morality for you, Fosco. Crimes cause their own detection. What infernal humbug! — Wilkie Collins

Photography is the art of not pushing the button. — Frank Horvat

I was now in a situation where I didn't have to prove myself, because the one person that fully accepted me, my best friend, was now a permanent fixture in my life. — Jamie McGuire

Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities; we're going to defeat you and make it impossible. — Newt Gingrich