"I believe the defining moment was when certain persons, who shall remain nameless, objected to my fuchsia silk striped waistcoat. I loved that waistcoat. I put my foot down, right then and there; I do not mind telling you!" To punctuate his deeply offended feelings, he stamped one silver-and-pearl-decorated high heel firmly. "No one tells me what I can and cannot wear!" He snapped up a lace fan from where it lay on a hall table and fanned himself vigorously with it for emphasis."

-- Gail Carriger

#Believe Quotes #High Heels Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.”

Source : Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
“I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism back then towards Indian people. And it wasn't actual hatred, it was just that blind, 'Let's pick on that guy.' You know, and you've got to figure that I was a very small kid. And I had a big mouth, so I'm sure that didn't help.”

Source : "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. May 17, 2013.
“Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“A weed is but an unloved flower.”

Source : Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917). “The Collected Poems”
“Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do! I'm half crazy, all for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two!”

Source : "Daisy Bell" (song) (1892)
“The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.”
“While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.”

Source : Jack Vance (2007). “The Jack Vance Treasury”, Subterranean

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