Kiaras Necklace Quotes & Sayings

I don't grudge them some bodily comforts. It cannot always be Lent. What I cannot stomach is hypocrisy, fraud, idleness - their worn-out relics, their threadbare worship, and their lack of invention. When did anything good last come from a monastery? They do not invent, they only repeat, and what they repeat is corrupt. For hundreds of years the monks have held the pen, and what they have written is what we take to be our history, but I do not believe it really is. I believe they have suppressed the history they don't like, and written one that is favorable to Rome. Henry appears to look straight through him, — Hilary Mantel

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants. — John Locke

When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly forsee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history. — Charles Darwin

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me. — Melanie Griffith

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role. — Dinah Sheridan