House Of Spirits Esteban Quotes & Sayings

Because he hates to praise by name
He praises everybody. Vice
And virtue must look much the same
To one who calls the whole world "nice". — Marcus Valerius Martialis

The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles — Joseph Brodsky

When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up. — Allen Lacy

You love the Pope, don't you, Paddy?" Tom is staring at me.

"Why, I do not know," I say, surprised into honesty. "I hardly know about him. Only he did not send help to us when we were hungry at home. Perhaps he did not know. — Jonatha Ceely

Gastronomy is and always has been connected with its sister art of love. — M.F.K. Fisher

I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother. — Dan Skinner

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money. — Paul Bremer

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. — G.K. Chesterton

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control. — Alice Hamilton

I'm glad Carol Vorderman has left Countdown, I mean it's not like she did much. She was effectively just an autistic shelf-stacker. — Michael McIntyre

I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region. — Rainbow Rowell

Consider the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were mined. — Anonymous

There are times when the trouble we face has nothing to do with anything wrong we've done; but everything to do with where we're going. — Jamie Larbi

When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson