Presumptious Quotes & Sayings

It's still woman's work whether it's done in a great hall or in the kitchen," I said bitterly. "I know it well enough. It's earning no money for yourself and everything for your husband and master. It's obeying him as quickly and as well as if you were a groom of the servery. It's having to tolerate anything he chooses to do, and smile as he does it. I've served Queen Katherine in these last few years. I've seen how life has been for her. I wouldn't be a princess, not even for a princess's dowry. I wouldn't even be a queen. I have seen her shamed and humiliated and insulted, and all she could do was kneel on her prie dieu, pray for a little help, and get to her feet and smile at the woman who was triumphing over her. — Philippa Gregory

What strange creatures brothers are! — Jane Austen

You're asking," I said. "I've always been the one to end — Cheryl Strayed

I don't choose my friends based on how they treat each other, I choose them based on how they treat me. — Scheana Marie

We can do more than pray, after we have prayed, but not until. — Alistair Begg

If you haven't got love, you've got nothing. — Rebecca Ferguson

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again. — Hiawatha

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can. — K.A. Applegate

No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants. — Jean-Paul Marat

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid. — John Denham

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious. — P.G. Wodehouse

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes." — Kevin Kelly