Quotes of: Marquis Keyword

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

The Marquis of Lossie

Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward.

The Marquis At Midnight

Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence.

The Marquis' Secret

Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...

Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade

We're all free and equal to die like dogs

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

A fan is like the thighs of a woman: It opens and closes. A good fan opens with a flick of the wrist. It produces its own weather---a breeze not so strong as to muss the hair.

The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade

Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door. I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himsel...

The Marquis' Secret

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.

The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade

Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of ...

Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade

I'm not afraid to die.

John Wooden

I would I were in the kingdom of heaven if it be as you and Mr. Graham take it for!" said Clementina. "You must be in it, my lady, or you couldn't wish it to be such as it is." "Can one be in it and yet seem to himself to be out of it. Malcolm?" "So ...

The Marquis' Secret

It is not at all a fit place for ," said Clementina. "Gently, my lady. It is a greater than thou that sets the bounds of my habitation. Perhaps He may give me a palace one day. But the Father has decreed for His children that they shall know the thin...

The Marquis' Secret

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Martha Beck

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

David Petraeus

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

William Gilbert

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

Charles Ferguson Smith

The wine is drawn, M. le Marquis...we must drink it.′

William Makepeace Thackeray

It is just the old way--that of obedience. If you have ever seen the Lord, if only from afar--if you have any vaguest suspicion that the Jew Jesus, who professed to have come from God, was a better man, a different man--one of your first duties must ...

The Marquis' Secret

I do believe that when a man confesses to his neighbor and says he's sorry, he thinks more of him than he did before. You see, we all know we have done wrong, but we haven't usually confessed it. And it's a funny thing, but when the time comes when t...

The Marquis' Secret

The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City." Old Bailey nodded, sagely: "What, the big white buggers? They're down there. I had a friend lost a head to one of them." A moment of ...

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