"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."

-- George William Curtis

#Motivational Quotes #Peace Quotes #Kindness Quotes

“You should only play pieces that you're willing to marry.”
“Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.”
“More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again, gender mattered. If Albert had lived, it seems clear that he would have resisted that development much more tenaciously, which the gradual emasculation (and feminization) of monarchy was probably more easily accomplished when a woman was on the throne.”
“Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.”
“every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?”
“After a disappointing summer, Humpty Dumpty has a great fall.”
“As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.”
“No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.”

Source : Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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