Muallaqat Quotes & Sayings

The beggarly last doit. — William Cowper

The way she felt almost delicate when she was pressed up against him like this. Almost fragile. Almost safe. Almost like a princess. — Marissa Meyer

It is always easier to curse in another language than your own! — Evan Currie

What's Important Now (?) — Lou Holtz

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation. — John Currin

We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride. — Salman Rushdie

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all. — Vincent Van Gogh

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. — Lemony Snicket

If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating. — Terence McKenna

I'd go home to a wife whom I was not sexually enjoying. — Mark Driscoll

Back then life was simple and sweet. Everything was simple and sweet. The taste of cherries, the cool shade, the fresh smell of the river. That was how we lived, in a vale among the hills, sheltered from the storms. Ignorant of the world, as though on an island. Peaceful and untroubled. And then. Then everything changed. — Cyril Pedrosa

As my wife you cannot refuse me. I have a right to you, as your betrothed husband. From now, till your death, you will never be able to refuse me. There can be no rape between us, only my rights and your duty. — Philippa Gregory

Honesty: what a refreshing slap in the face it is. — T. M. Brenner

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men
even if there are monsters in it. — Bram Stoker

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers. — Simon Mawer