"People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit."

--

Source : Georgette Heyer (2010). “Death in the Stocks”, p.43, Random House

Georgette Heyer

#People Quotes #Lions Quotes #Habit Quotes

“The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be.”
“People appreciating my performance is good enough for me. I don't care much for awards and have never given it much thought. And anyway, I can't play the games people play to win awards.”
“And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.”
“Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.”
“That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.”

Source : Alfred Sutro (1906). “The Price of Money: A Play in Four Acts”
“My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish as well as English. And I speak a little bit Japanese because I've had the opportunity to work alongside Japanese people. And a little bit of German, a little bit of Portuguese because of work. A little bit of French because of work. But then, if you asked me to carry-on an everyday conversation, I would fail miserably.”
“She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2011). “The Sheltering Sky”, p.7, Harper Collins
“The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.”

You may also like:

Barbara Cartland
Author
Daphne du Maurier
Author
Dorothy L. Sayers
Writer
E. M. Delafield
Author
Jane Austen
Novelist
Jean Plaidy
Author
Julia Quinn
Author
Mary Balogh
Novelist
Ngaio Marsh
Writer