Lizzy Borden Quotes & Sayings

Ms. Borden is Lizzy's mother? — Anne Bishop

Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That in itself would be an accomplishment. But this is a book that is truly riveting, a narrative that gallops. Lizzy Borden eat your heart out. Here's a real crime of passion. Or was it? I dare you to pick this one up and try, just try to put it down. — Peter Orner

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden. — Irene Tomkinson

Both are women dressed in tight dresses and high — Susan Ee

There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

She wielded it easily, lightly. She carried it swinging like a baseball bat, only with more poetry to it. It was a frightening thing to watch, this small shadow of billowing grey fabric and sprawling, wild hair splaying out behind her, the axe held at the ready with both hands, poised and prepared. — Cherie Priest

For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights. — John Smit

There are three capitals of entertainment in the world: Las Vegas, New York and London. So far the only one I truly conquered is Vegas. New York and London are still on my checklist. — Guy Laliberte

With that, Tommy went off to do his seagull thing elsewhere on set - making a lot of irritating noise while simultaneously shitting on everyone. — Greg Sestero

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer. — Robert Wyatt