Tealess Quotes & Sayings

Only to be sent tealess to bed seemed infinite mercy to him. Officially tealess, that is; for, as was usual after such escapades, a sympathetic housemaid, coming delicately by backstairs, stayed him with chunks of cold pudding and condolence, till his small skin was tight as any drum. — Kenneth Grahame

Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough. — Alain De Botton

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood. — Dylan McDermott

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me. — Charlaine Harris

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn. — Isabel Allende

I don't find you suspicious at all.' He turned to Martha and whispered, 'I find him incredibly suspicious. — Derek Landy

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows? — Ryan Adams

Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Better to work for one's self alone. The public is so stupid. Who reads? And what do they read?
And what do they admire? Ah, blessed peaceful times of the past, blessed eras of powdered wigs! You lived with complete assurance, poised on your high heels, twirling your silver-headed canes! Beneath us the earth is trembling. Where can we place our fulcrum, even admitting that we possess the lever? The thing we all lack is not style, nor that dexterity of finger and bow known as talent. We have a large orchestra, a rich palette, a variety of resources. We know many more tricks and dodges, probably, than were ever known before. No; what we lack is the intrinsic principle, the soul of the thing, the very idea of the subject.We take notes, we make journeys: emptiness! Emptiness! We become scholars, archaeologists, historians, doctors, cobblers, connoisseurs. What good is all that? Where is the heart, the verve, the sap? Where to start out from? Where to go to? — Gustave Flaubert

I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this way or that or this demographic might not like it. To me a character can't do anything good or bad, they can only do something that's true or not. — Quentin Tarantino