Thwaites Methuen Quotes & Sayings

[T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it. — Elaine Dundy

Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious. — David Hume

Mr. Harinton was real.
There were adults in the world who would actually make sacrifices for others - not just for their own families but for anyone who needed help.
Nicholas had always had the impression that families looked after one another, and he had come to understand that, on rare ocassions, children would do the same ... But this was different.
What Mr. Harinton was doing certainly helped Nicolas - but it also simply felt right to Nicholas. It made him want to be exactly like Mr. Harinton himself. — Trenton Lee Stewart

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. — Harper Lee

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. — Edmund Spenser

Whoa. Back up. I smell? — Lili St. Crow

Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you. — Dean Koontz

Capitalism, it turns out, can achieve what charity and good intentions sometimes cannot. Microfinance has done more to bolster the status of women, and to protect them from abuse, than any laws could accomplish. — Nicholas D. Kristof

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies. — R.D. Laing

The mysteries that cups of flowers infold
And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold. — William Wordsworth

It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world — Rosa Brooks