Quotes About Elisabeth

The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.

isn't the problems that determine our destiny. It's how we respond.

Did I? Daniel said. While we're here. Well. While we're here, let's just always hold out hope for the person who says it. Says what, Mr Gluck? Elisabeth said. Sure you want war? Daniel said.

They're called rollerblades, she said. Rollerblades, Daniel said. Right. Well? And you can't rollerblade on grass, she said. Can't you? Daniel said. How very disappointing truth is sometimes. Can't we try? There'd be no point, she said. Can't we try anyway? he said. We might disprove the general consensus. Okay, Elisabeth said.

Elisabeth had been listening to the programme in the bath. She'd switched the radio off after it and wondered if she'd be able to listen to Radio 4 in any innocence ever again. Her ears had undergone a sea-change. Or the world had. But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and — Rich and what? she thought. Rich and poor.

I personally shall be giving her the benefits of the doubt, Elisabeth said. Now you're ready, Daniel said. Ready for what? Elisabeth said. Ready to bagatelle it as it is, Daniel said.

nobody in their right minds could make that story any good. Is this a challenge to my right mind? Daniel said. Indubitably, Elisabeth said. Well then, Daniel said. My right mind will meet your challenge.

In quel momento un'ombra di malinconia le passò sul volto. O ce lo stiamo inventando? Non riusciamo a capire - questo è certo - com'è che questi due esseri non abbiano potuto incontrarsi. Ma il lettore voglia credere, con noi, che un'ombra di malinconia passò davvero per un attimo sul volto di Elsbeth.

Mr. Hurst looked at her with astonishment. ''Do you prefer reading to cards?'' said he; ''that is rather singular.'' ''I prefer a great many things to cards, Mr. Hurst,'' said Elisabeth; ''Not the least of which is the sensation of a newly sharpened blade as it punctures the round belly of a man.'' Mr. Hurst was silent for the remainder of the evening.

called Elisabeth Sterling Design (ESD for short), a company that designs and manufactures a popular line of

No outsider was allowed to glimpse the mansion when Elisabeth was in residence. She could go walking for hours, observing the deer (she always carried wooden rattles with her to protect her from wild boars, who were afraid of the noise) or composing poems.

Elisabeth "has always been strange and has followed only her whims and wishes, and now shyness and melancholia have been added. Who among gifted people who enjoy unlimited freedom is entirely normal? The Empress is, as we all are, the product of conditions." (Bavarian lady-in-waiting)

This farce with "Titania and Alfred" is not as trivial as it may at first glance seem in the context of a biography. It characterized Elisabeth's relations with her admirers, as well as her inability to separate reality from fantasy. The fact that she spent many hours composing the Alfred poems shows the extent of her isolation.

Elisabeth later always referred to this situation [her engagement and marriage] with great bitterness, saying, "Marriage is an absurd arrangement. One is sold as a fifteen-year-old child and makes a vow one does not understand and then regrets for thirty years or more, and which one can never undo again." "The Reluctant Empress", chapter 1