Lesseps Residence Quotes & Sayings

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues. — William Hazlitt

The Bible is the greatest love story ever told. — Jordan Wells

The Marquis of Harsfield Lord Franton, arrived after you left." Lady Endall said with some satisfaction. "He said he wished to be presented to Kim, and was quite dissapointed to find she was not there."
"Harsfield? He must be nearly eighty." Mairelon said, frowning. "What does he want with Kim?"
"No, no, Richard, you're thinking of the fourth Marquis of Harsfield," Lady Wendall said. "He died last year; it is the fifth Marquis who was asking after Kim. He is quite a young gentleman
not much above twenty, I think. He was the grandson of the previous marquis."
"Oh. I expect that's all right, then." Mairelon said, but he continued to frown. — Patricia C. Wrede

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it. — Henry David Thoreau

There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics. — Robert Robinson

I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways. — Adi Shankar

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible. — Philip Guston

It would be worth all this misery Bowen had had to endure, and more, to destroy the man who had murdered his parents, raped and killed his virgin bride at their wedding feast, — Shanna Murchison

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move. — Erica Jong

We've all got voices inside our heads and over time they blend into a mental orchestra that all sounds the same. This is where we assume every voice we hear is our own even though that is not true. — Toni Sorenson

Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you. Born through your dreams, crystallised into form by your desires, given impetus by your expectations, then made real through your beliefs. — Steven Redhead

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man. — Dorothy Parker

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman. — Antonia Fraser

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known. — Raheel Farooq

Even though it was past eight, there was still some light left - it was one of those long summer twilights that seem to go on forever, the light somehow tinged with blue. I — Morgan Matson