"My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?"

-- Georgette Heyer

#Girl Quotes #Lazy Quotes #Social Work Quotes

“Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.”
“I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.”
“Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.”
“Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.”
“Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.”
“I donâ€™t think â€˜science fictionâ€™ is a very good name for it, but itâ€™s the name that weâ€™ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is, if Iâ€™m just called a sci-fi writer. Iâ€™m not. Iâ€™m a novelist and poet. Donâ€™t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I donâ€™t fit, because Iâ€™m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.”
“Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.”

Source : Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.5
“A lot of people depend on their mate or spouse to make them happy and those are the people that are the most miserable.”

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