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Quotes About Beatrice

I love acting, I really do, I've always loved doing it, and it's a joy to be asked to do this. I mean, to do Beatrice, for God's sake, it is the best comedy Shakespeare role for a woman, and to be asked to do it.
~ Mel Giedroyc
Overcoming me with the light of a smile, she [Beatrice] said to me: "Turn and listen, for not only in my eyes is Paradise."
~ Dante Alighieri
There is a deeper voice of God, which you must learn to hear and obey in the second half of life. It will sound an awful lot like the voices of risk, of trust, of surrender, of soul, of "common sense," of destiny, of love, of an intimate stranger, of your deepest self, of soulful "Beatrice.
~ Richard Rohr
Was Beatrice capable of such machinations? I could not say. Our acquaintance was of a brief duration, but she was American and, in my experience, Americans are capable of anything.
~ Deanna Raybourn
One day Beatrice entered their stateroom to find Marconi consigning his dirty socks to the sea through a porthole. Stunned, she asked him why. His explanation: It was more efficient to get new ones than wait for them to be laundered.
~ Erik Larson
In 'Divergent,' the story is about Beatrice Prior, and I play her brother.
~ Ansel Elgort
Some call it the Cherry Hotel. But most just say it's Madame Damnable's Sewing Circle and have done. So I guess that makes me a seamstress, just like Beatrice and Miss Francina and Pollywog and Effie and all the other girls. I
~ Elizabeth Bear
Judas, boredom is such a drag, drag, drag. Writing might be good therapy for me, though.
~ Beatrice Sparks
Beatrice. I just like B and that's all. I was named after the month of Junie. 'Cause Junie is the month I was born in, of course! And wait till you hear this! Yesterday, I finally had my birthday!
~ Barbara Park
MARY: I don't think you have dulcet tones. Dulcet means sweet. When are you ever sweet? CATHERINE: My most dulcet tones. I was using the superlative. Everyone has a most something, even if it's not very much. BEATRICE: I think Catherine can be quite sweet when she wants to. CATHERINE: I just don't want to very often.
~ Theodora Goss
The stream of love breaks down Fluid lightning The flash of vibrating being But also the flash of darkness The light of Beatrice's eyes, their lightning flash How am I to understand this? How to understand unknowing That I do not!
~ Göran Sonnevi
The Literature of Man... When Plato – was a Certainty – And Sophocles – a Man – When Sappho – was a living Girl – And Beatrice wore The Gown that Dante – deified – Facts Centuries before...
~ Emily Dickinson, 1863
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
~ William Shakespeare
I smiled at the young woman with the warmth and goodwill that only the pure of heart, or the people who've recently swallowed a handful of OxyContin, can muster. "I'm Allison Weiss. Are you Beatrice?" I had gotten the call the night before, from a woman who'd introduced herself as Kim Caster, a producer for The News on Nine, the local evening newscast. "Did you hear about that mess in Akron?" she had asked.
~ Jennifer Weiner
It is said that the portions of the journal covering the years 1832-61 were preserved by an order from King Edward VII and that they were typed from the originals. Beatrice is said not to have been aware of this act. If this is true, these copied portions have not been released to the public.
~ Unknown
Hello, Julie," he says. "I am commencing to wonder what becomes of you. I am walking around here for weeks trying to keep warm and I am all tuckered out. What do you suppose is the idea of not providing people with overcoats when they are placed to rest? Only I do not rest, Julie. Do you see Beatrice lately and what does she says about my stone?
~ Damon Runyon