House Of Mirth Significant Quotes & Sayings

I feel excited; but I do not want to be, for that is not right. I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again — Erich Maria Remarque

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it. — Idris Elba

The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up. — Jenny McCarthy

no one asks poor people if they want war. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying. — Bobbie Gentry

It's not about size, it's a science. — Andre Ward

Don't panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. "You mean you can feel happy or sad or - "
"Desire." A barely-there smile. — Becca Fitzpatrick

There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

What's the point of changing who you are in order to impress a woman, when your intention is to return to who you were, a person she was never attracted to in the first place? — Richelle E. Goodrich

You'll sleep in my bed every night. There are times when I'll want to bind you in the bed so that you're helpless and dependent on me for everything. I'll make love to you while you're spread out and tied to my bedposts. Where your body will be available to me whenever I choose to take it. And I'll take you often, Joss. Before we go to bed at night. During the night. And first thing in the morning before you're fully awake. I'll slide into your beautiful body and I'll be the first thing you feel each morning. I'll be the last thing you know when you go to sleep at night. And you'll go to bed knowing you are mine and that you belong, heart and soul, to me. You'll never have cause to doubt it because not a day will go by that I won't prove that to you. — Maya Banks

Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts. — D. Todd Christofferson

-No, not it...I mean...what makes things break up like they do?-
Piggy rubbed his glasses slowly and thought. When he understood how Ralph had gone towards accepting him he flushed pinkly with pride.
-I donnot, Ralph. I expect it's him.-
-Jack?-
-Jack- A taboo was evolving round that word too. — William Golding

It is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! — Leo Tolstoy

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are. — Desmond Tutu