Swankiness Quotes & Sayings

I distrust great men ... I believe in aristocracy, though. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet ... They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure and they can take a joke. — E. M. Forster

Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about? — Dawn French

She must ask; she must heal, and if she couldn't heal, she must suffer, but if there was a chance, she must take it. — Kellyn Roth

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing. — Babatunde Adebimpe

Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work. — Chris Cornell

There's nothing like gunfire to drive the glamour from words. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,a the people he choseb for his inheritance.c — Anonymous

Love potions? For Will Herondale? T'aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that's a fact. — Cassandra Clare

Never eat in a restaurant that has a bowling trophy on the cash register. — Warren Miller

Some remain great cities, but they shouldn't stand still. They should move in the direction of a knowledge-oriented society. Most cities have to do something to draw attention to themselves and make their particular assets visible on the international radar. I'm not talking about developing countries, but about the United States and Europe. — Charles Landry