"It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't"

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Source : Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.69, Courier Corporation

Baroness Orczy

#Simple Quotes #Knives Quotes #Necks Quotes

“It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.”
“Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.”
“Itâ€™s not the fear of writing that blocks people, itâ€™s fear of not writing well; something quite different.”
“I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.”
“There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.”
“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”

Source : Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2936, Delphi Classics
“Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.”
“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”

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