Hester Stanhope Quotes & Sayings

My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink. — Hester Lucy Stanhope

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult? — Lady Hester Stanhope

I've always loved it in Las Vegas, and it is the only city in the world that brings so many different talented people from so many places. — Daniel Boulud

Totally isolated from our own culture for long periods, we became vulnerable to forgotten times and tribes re-awakening within us. Our journeys, we found, were to take us simultaneously to some of the least-charted regions of the planet and to the least-charted regions of our own minds. What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest, an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens, dragons and pirates, cannibals and headhunters, mystics and magicians. — Lawrence Blair

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all. — Luanne Rice

A poor gentlewoman, doctor, is the worst thing in the world — Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old. — Claudia Christian

I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies. — Lady Hester Stanhope

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment. — Bret Michaels

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I love the '70s. I think the '70s had the best music and the best movies. — Michael Jai White

Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women. — Lady Hester Stanhope

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare. — Lady Hester Stanhope

Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish! — Lady Hester Stanhope

The roar of an angry crowd is one of the most terrifying sounds in the world. — Elizabeth Peters

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it. — Lady Hester Stanhope