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Quotes About Sybil

there is a war on and one must not grumble: quoting Sybil Harry in 1914
~ Kate Adie
The hostess extended her swanlike neck and opened her mouth to the fullest. Aaaahhhaaaahhhhheeeeaaaahhhh! Somewhere in the depths of the pine forest an identical sound reverberated. An echo! exclaimed Frannie. No, smiled Helena. Sybil Manigault. She's into nature.
~ Armistead Maupin
passion for Sybil, wife of a lord of Lorraine, Enguerrand
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
I feel very grateful for Sybil. 'Fawlty Towers' was very hard to make, but it was very stimulating.
~ Prunella Scales
He had a notebook. He took notes in it. It was always useful. And them Sybil, gods bless her, had brought him this fifteen-function imp which did so many other things, although as far as he could see at least ten of its functions consisted of apologizing for its inefficiency in the other five.
~ Terry Pratchett
She said she sometimes worked as an usherette in the cinema, and she had seemed to him like a nymph of the cinema age, a sybil of the cavern of illusory love.
~ Iris Murdoch
During the previous centuries in the entire world, there had been perhaps two hundred reported cases of multiple personality disorder; during the 1970s, the decade of Sybil, there were around four hundred, mainly among American women, especially highly hypnotizable women.
~ Kurt Andersen
She was a thinking bosom and one who overpowered her young lovers, all Sybil — a Romantic.
~ V. S. Pritchett