Wistful Short Quotes & Sayings

I am sure,
Though you can guess what temperance should be,
You know not what it is. — William Shakespeare

If you ever, ever, ever want to complain about what's going on in the U.S., you should vote because then you have a right to. If you want to complain, you should vote. — Ashley Greene

The marquess held the weapon out, as formally as if he were passing a sword.
Soberly, Ned accepted it. He placed the sacrificial citrus on the table in front of him, and then with one careful
incision, eviscerated it. He speared deep into its heart, his
hands steady, and then cut it to pieces. Jenny allotted herself one short moment of wistful sorrow for her afterdinner treat gone awry as the juice ran everywhere.
"Enough." She reached out and covered his hand midstab.
"It's dead now," she explained gravely.
He pulled his hand away and nodded. Lord Blakely took back his knife and cleaned it with a handkerchief.
Jenny studied the corpse. It was orange. It was pulpy. It
was going to be a mess to clean up. Most importantly, it gave her an excuse to sit and think of something mystical to say - the only reason for this exercise, really. Lord Blakely
demanded particulars. But in Jenny's profession, specifics were the enemy. — Courtney Milan

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority. — Billy Graham

The personality of the artist leaks through their work. God included. He reveals himself through nature, as the Scriptures testify. — John Eldredge

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves. — Marianne Williamson

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well. — Alain De Botton

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music. — Kurt Weill

We have been in many trials, but we have never yet been cast where we could not find in our God all that we needed. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Still, he could not think of the mass of Moroccans without contempt. He had no patience with their ignorance and backwardness; if he damned the Europeans with one breath, he was bound to damn the Moroccans with the next. No one escaped but him, and that was because he hated himself most of all. — Paul Bowles

At six o'clok the young King's terrible sufferings finally ended. After his eyes had closed for the last time, the tempeste raged on. Later, superstitious folk claimed that Henry himself had sent it, and had risen from his grave in anger at the subversion of his will. — Alison Weir

So you never got to wherever it was. Weren't you terribly disappointed, Sebastian?
Julia Flyte — Evelyn Waugh

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles. — Sarah Orne Jewett