Quotes of: Affair Keyword

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.

Alicia Vikander

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

Evelyn Underhill

The philosopher often appears ridiculous in the practical affairs of life, because he or she has stepped out of the rush of time.

Love

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

James Madison

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

The Eyre Affair

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

The Eyre Affair

They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.

The Eyre Affair

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

The Eyre Affair

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

The Eyre Affair

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

The End of the Affair

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

The End of the Affair

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

The Eyre Affair

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

Emma

The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.

Foundations of Higher Education Law and Policy

Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men. Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Do you think we find Jesus, or does He find us?" (140+Likes on FB)

Affairs of the Heart - God's Messages to the World

I’m arguably the least real of all my characters, a state of affairs for which I make no apologies, being, indeed, altogether proud of the fact.

Beginner's Luke

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Emily Carr

Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn't dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth.

Astonish Me

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

The Apology

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

A Secret Affair