Japera Smith Quotes & Sayings

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. — Thomas Jefferson

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Jane would be the next queen and her children, when she had them, would be the next princes or princesses. Or she might wait, as the other queens had waited, every month, desperate to know that she had conceived, knowing each month that it did not happen that Henry's love wore a little thinner, that his patience grew a little shorter. Or Anne's curse of death in childbed, and death to her son, might come true. I did not envy Jane Seymour. I had seen two queens married to King Henry and neither of them had much joy of it. — Philippa Gregory

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171). — Patti Smith

If the Lord made anything better than a woman he kept it for himself. — Jerry Lee Lewis

The mock-heroic, in whatever guise. One example, from Alexander Theroux: 'It was high tea: the perfervid ritual in England which daily sweetens the ambiance of the discriminately invited and that nothing short of barratry, a provoked shaft of lightning, the King's enemies, or an act of God could ever hope to bring to an end.' This elaborate banality might serve as a lesson to all fifth-formers. The sentence is a wreck: ugly, untrue and illiterate; even in the interests of pseudo-elegant variation, you cannot start a clause with a which and then switch to a that. — Martin Amis

No one answers. It feels as if I'm not there, as if I'm as invisible as the nicotine they're inhaling. — Ida Lokas

But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments. — Khadija Rupa