Quotes of: Twelfth Keyword

Harder! Harder! Strike at it, for the gods’ sake! It’s a Parthian, not your grandmother! I swear if you don’t put some effort into— What?

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

I nursed that flame as if it were my only son, and all round the ram nineteen other men did likewise.

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

At this moment,’ I said, ‘I think you will be surprised at what he will allow. Our centurion has just discovered what he lives for, and it is this.

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

Twelfth Night

A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule and the senate would have no choice but to accept him.

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much.

Twelfth Night

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

Twelfth Night

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

Twelfth Night

Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another." pg 69 Tomas to Vlad

Twelfth Grade Kills

Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle.

Twelfth Grade Kills

In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, N...

Richard LaGravenese

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

Owen Hart

The mare on which the traitor had been seated at the time of his death was, obviously, no longer considered the best horse in Parthia. It was amazing that she had not been served as stew at one of the banquets.

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

Cadus spoke the local Greek better than I did; they stretch the vowels here, and round them off, so that words that look the same on the written page sound as if they are spoken by a goat with catarrh.

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

In the centre of our line, eighty paces to my left, I felt Cadus raise his hand; I did not need to look. ‘Sound,’ he said. That was all.

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

The Metalogicon of John of Salsibury: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium

Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my best To woo your lady.' [Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife! Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.

Twelfth Night

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius." pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss

Twelfth Grade Kills

V: [Quoting Viola from Twelfth Night Act I Scene 2] Conceal me what I am, and be my aid For such disguise as haply shall become The form of my intent.

V for Vendetta

I watched a moment longer, studying the terrain and the scuffed earth beyond the bluffs, and then, more softly, said, ‘Tears, signal to Lupus. Ask for cavalry.’ We had cavalry...by heaven, did we have cavalry.

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles