Montedoro Painting Quotes & Sayings

Demelza thought: She's one day too late, just one day. How beautiful she is; how I hate her. Then she glanced at Ross again, and for the first time like the stab of a treacherous knife it occurred to her that Ross's desire for her last night was a flicker for empty passion. All day she had been too preoccupied with her own feelings to spare time for his. Now she could see so much in his eyes. — Winston Graham

Fifth of American families lived on farms in the 1930s, — Gail Collins

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight. — Natalie Clifford Barney

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war. — Michel De Montaigne

All of her aunts said that Bridget looked exactly like her mother as a teenager. Staring at her, Bridget realised she had no memories of her mother being thin. — Siobhan Vivian

I don't believe in astronomy. Or is it astrology? I always get those two confused. But I'll tell you, that Copernicus was full of shit. — Jarod Kintz

Among Chinese Singaporeans and Malaysians, many hold the belief that when Admiral Cheng Ho landed in Nanyang, he relieved himself in the jungle, and the steaming puddle of shit and piss evolved into the durian tree. To put it less elegantly, the mounds of flesh inside the durian resemble a row of little turds, resting neatly in a boat-shaped husk. — Wong Yoon Wah

Love is an equation, a me and a you derives a we. — Richard Fish

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine. — Mort Kondracke

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. — Amos Bronson Alcott