Mitrofanii Quotes & Sayings

Mitrofanii frowned - he found women's tears hard to bear, especially if they were not shed out of self-indulgence but for some substantial reason, as now. — Boris Akunin

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter. — Neil Jordan

I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana. — Christian Louboutin

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate. — Archibald Alexander

And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon. — Leonard Cohen

Verres had Gavius thrown into prison, tortured and crucified, on the specious grounds that he was a spy for Spartacus. Roman citizenship should have protected him from this degrading punishment. So, as he was flogged, the poor man repeatedly cried out, 'Civis Romanus sum' ('I am a Roman citizen'), but to no avail. Presumably, when they chose to repeat this phrase, both Palmerston and Kennedy (see p. 137) must have forgotten that its most famous ancient use was as the unsuccessful plea of an innocent victim under a sentence of death imposed by a rogue Roman governor. — Mary Beard

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there. — Ernest Becker

Don't count too much on God," said Mitrofanii, quenching his spiritual son's optimism. "He has plenty of other things to worry about besides boot heels. — Boris Akunin

The reverend bishop, knowing that Pelagia found it easier to think with her knitting in her hands, told her, "You may knit." The pointed steel needles began clacking furiously and Mitrofanii frowned as he recalled what dreadful creations those deceptively deft hands brought into the world. At Eastertide the sister had presented the bishop with a white scarf adorned with the letters CA for "Christ is Arisen," rendered so crookedly that they seemed already to have celebrated the ending of the fast with some gusto. "Who is this for?" His Grace — Boris Akunin