"The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims."

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Source : 'The Ingoldsby Legends' (First Series, 1840) 'The Jackdaw of Rheims'

Richard Harris Barham

#Dream Quotes #Book Quotes #Knights Quotes

“Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism of clingy, all-forgiving sisterhood, from which no first-rate book has yet emerged. Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.”
“There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.”
“collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.”
“literacy is at the heart of sustainable development”
“Being poor is only romantic in books.”

Source : Sidney Sheldon (2007). “The dark side of midnight: featuring The other side of midnight, Rage of angels”
“Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.”

Source : "Fictional character: Maurice J. Minnifield". TV Series "Northern Exposure" ("The Big Kiss", 1991), 1990-1995.
“I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.”

Source : Sonia Johnson (1989). “Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution”, Wildfire Books
“Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.”

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