"[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room."

-- Hugh Walpole

#Doors Quotes #Events Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.”
“Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.”

Source : Jane Rogers (2012). “The Ice is Singing”, p.35, Canongate Books
“If left to their own devices a child will achieve.”
“Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.”
“It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.”
“Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.”
“[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.”
“Athlete or not, I’m going to make sure you know how to read.”

You may also like:

Ann Bridge
Autobiographer
Clemence Dane
Novelist
E.F. Benson
Novelist
Eden Phillpotts
Author
Horace Walpole
Politician
J. B. Priestley
Novelist
John Masefield
Poet
W. Somerset Maugham
Playwright
Walter de La Mare
Poet