Ruffles And Flourishes Quotes & Sayings

It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth. — Shannon L. Alder

The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr. — Anne Boleyn

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

His agony is the basis of the simplicity of our salvation. — Oswald Chambers

Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls. — Patti Hansen

I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it. — John Irving

Life can be cut short in an instant, so make sure to live with no regrets and love with all your heart. — Micalea Smeltzer

Men respect women who have standards - get some! — Steve Harvey

Why is it that, as we lose our loveliness, the sheen of youth, we lose possibility as well? We acquire, but more is vanished than is given, and nothing makes up for the loss of the swallows at the Sherry, or the Victoria diamond, or the nights at Area when your booted feet ground the glass phials of amyl nitrate into the dance floor. — Robert Goolrick

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even ... malicious. — H.L. Mencken

The story of Love is the story of Love of Self. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If she wanted to enter an otherworld, all she had to do was open a novel. — Alice Hoffman