Quotes About Author

Often you told me that responsibility and authority are privileges, not the rights of every man for the taking.

should have been in Parliament, Allday." Allday put down his empty glass. He had never seen him in quite this mood before, "I'm too honest, sir.

To understand contamination in modern terms we should think of purity as innocence.

Her ordinariness, and the fact that she has written so much about it, is what makes her interesting.

My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative.

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

Let Sporus tremble—"What? that thing of silk,Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?"

Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreetTo run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.

Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

She sins with poets through pure love of wit

And grant the bad what happiness they would / One they must want, which is to pass for good.

Guideless I wander, unregarded mourn,   105 Whilst these exalt their sceptres o'er my urn;

The Eucharist is the sacrament of cosmic remembrance: it is indeed a restoration of love as the very life of the world.

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

wrapped in the scent of her warm, tempting skin? "When a human is . . . transformed

Blood hell, what happened to you?" - Dante The dark wisard and I had a mild disagreement." -Viper What sort of disagreement?" -Dante I thought he should be dead and he disagreed." -Viper

Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was Evor." "Strange that they do not resemble each other." "I have a good imagination." "Ah, in that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?

This is a private home." "And?" "And I can't enter without an invitation." She jerked her head up. "You're kidding me?" "No." "You don't live in a crypt and you can't turn into a bat, but you have to have an invitation to enter a house?" Abby hissed. A reluctant amusement softened the flat eyes. "You wanted me to be vampirish." "Not when it's inconvenient.