Quotes About Elizabeth

These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.

Dracula —" He paused. "Dracula—Vlad Tepes—is still alive.

He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.

she was the picture of a prosperous, semi-traditional Hong

Beautiful Belinta, Belle of the Hub Worlds." Nobody but the residents would call this sector the Hub Worlds, unless they thought the rest of the wheel had fallen off.

Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.

why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself!

Cousin John reads Tolkien. No man who does that can be wholly evil.

But why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself!

It has been funny and delightful, that little interlude of admiration, but of course it couldn't go on once Caroline appeared. Rose knew her place.

and after a pause—Mellersh was much too prudent to speak except after a pause, during which presumably he was taking a careful mental copy of his coming observation—he said, much displeased...

Oh Gertrud,' I cried, intolerably stirred by the bare mention of that bed, 'this is a bleak and mischievous world, isn't it? Do you think we shall ever be warm and comfortable and happy again?

1922 was a bad year for Elizabeth. She was disappointed by some of the reviews of The Enchanted April although it was to prove the most popular — excepting the first — of all her novels. She suffered from depressions that she couldn't throw off. Her doctor diagnosed menopausal symptoms.

And when he saw the letter, her first letter, the first bit of her handwriting, by his plate at breakfast, he seized it so quickly and turned so red that Lewes was painfully clear as to who had written it. Poor Chris. Cumfrit. Clutches….

Pincher took me to London, and Knobbie brought me away. It looked as if I were beginning to be led about by dogs. My

He thanked me for "engaging so thoroughly in the process." I wondered if that was Senate code for being a pain in the neck, but I thought it better if I didn't ask.

my gifts are for life itself, for an unfortunately astute understanding of all the cruelty and pain in the world.

When these with violence were burned to death, We wished for our Elizabeth.

The Atlantic voyage of Mayflower was not the first British trip to the new world. Henry VII had financed two expeditions in 1497 and 1498, which grabbed Chesapeake Bay and Newfoundland for His Majesty. But it was not until the last quarter of the sixteenth century, under Elizabeth, that England set about a more systematic and determined settlement of the new world. It was Elizabeth's personal astrologer and court magus, Dr John Dee, who coined the term 'British Empire'.

My way of allotting my time is completely intuitive. I sit down at the typewriter every morning and start tackling whatever seems most pressing.

JUST AS THEY'D planned, April stopped by the Rosses' apartment on Thursday afternoon, and the three of them, April and Melanie and Marshall, went on down to pick up Elizabeth. Elizabeth

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE MARTIN GIVES ELIZABETH A SURPRISE

Elizabeth's name likely derives from the Hebrew Eli, meaning "my God," the beginning of Jesus' cry from the cross ("My God, my God"). The second part comes from sheva, which is an oath. Thus, her name indicates that God keeps promises.

Mary's Magnificat, together with her words to Gabriel and Elizabeth's words to her, explains why she should be blessed, even by Protestants. She was able to receive the angel's words and to accept them with both humility and grace.