FastSaying

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.


Brigid Brophy

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something crue...
BRIGID BROPHY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mi...
ARTHUR GOLDEN I refuse to believe that all men are pigs and women competing whores.
ANASTASIA Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE

More Brigid Brophy

Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something crue...
BRIGID BROPHY The truth is that the city is a device for reducing stress - by giving humans a free choice of escap...
BRIGID BROPHY Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something crue...
BRIGID BROPHY Unknown artists, creating what they are told, give their copyrights to the corporations that they wo...
MARIA BROPHY Painting is a messy business.
MARIA BROPHY If a client doesn’t value your work, then you shouldn’t sell it to them cheap, or trade it, & de...
MARIA BROPHY I have found that the people who don't like contracts because they say contracts show lack of trust ...
MARIA BROPHY I made sure my signature was on every board I painted. And that’s when it all changed.
DREW BROPHY I've been a smoker since I was 13 and it's really against our rights. Pretty soon they're going to b...
ALLAN BROPHY Right now we bring people in and talk to them and say, 'Don't do it again,'
THOMAS BROPHY So many artists worry about selling out. But they don't know what that means. Selling out is when yo...
MARIA BROPHY You cannot have what you want when you put energy into the things you don't want
MARIA BROPHY What I really wanted to do was paint surfboards with Paint Pens, but no company would let me. It was...
DREW BROPHY I don’t agonize over my paintings being perfect. I’m not creating masterpieces, I’m creating a...
DREW BROPHY Sometimes you get tired of all the pats on the back and you just want to say "where's the money".
DREW BROPHY You can train people to see you in a certain way and you can train them how to treat you.
DREW BROPHY Artists are paid in different currencies. Not just money, but time, freedom, ability to do what we l...
DREW BROPHY Internet and Radio are very exciting categories for the Clio Awards because they are disciplines tha...
AMI BROPHY Design is one of the most challenging Clio categories, as winning work must articulate ways to effec...
AMI BROPHY Clio selects judges whose work is at the vanguard of creative today. These 2006 TV and Print jurors ...
AMI BROPHY It's the scarlet letter of the century,
THOMAS BROPHY You aren't doing anything wrong, it's just hard.
DREW BROPHY The Surf Industry has become a private club, and I’ve never been one to join clubs. I just like to...
DREW BROPHY they do not kiss
but they both want to
instead their feet touch and so do their arms
...
BRIGID LOWRY Fuck!" He hit the door frame. It hurt. He did it again.
"Problems?"
"Yeah," said Gabriel...
BRIGID KEMMERER Casper, she said someone has to hold your leash.”
The dog barked.
Then he dipped his hea...
BRIGID KEMMERER Nick smiled. “I kind of like the irony.”
“Jesus, you are such a nerd.” Gabriel flung th...
BRIGID KEMMERER She hit him. Hard. Right in the face…
“Holy shit,” said Quinn. “Would it be wrong if I ...
BRIGID KEMMERER Nick,” he said. “I think I’m going to need you to bite my arm.”
“I think I’m going ...
BRIGID KEMMERER If you want me to fix your homework, you need to leave me alone.” Then he spotted her. “You’re...
BRIGID KEMMERER If you can't fix what went wrong, then fix what you can make right.
BRIGID KEMMERER You're so damn worried about what everyone else wants. Well, you know what, Nick? You're going to di...
BRIGID KEMMERER I'm hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waitin...
BRIGID LOWRY Any date you pick, someone is going to be too young or too old. And there needs to be a finite date.
BRIGID DEVRIES We've got to have something to hang our hat on. We have to have everyone participate in that process...
BRIGID DEVRIES The judge has to have time to process it all. I don't think there's any particular rush.
BRIGID DEVRIES We came a long way. Was it satisfactory to everyone? Probably not.
BRIGID DEVRIES Can I tell you one thing?” Melonhead says.
I swallow. “Sure.”
“One day isn’t you...
BRIGID KEMMERER You know what sucks about sorry? It's the worst word in the world. Because it always happens after y...
BRIGID KEMMERER We're all united by grief, and somehow divided by the same thing.
BRIGID KEMMERER My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke...
BRIGID BERLIN The process isn't over. The fat lady hasn't sung for all of (the patents).
BRIGID QUINN We're willing to look at new ways of measuring quality, if they make sense with the way we run our o...
BRIGID QUINN From a new type of swim cap and a browning device for a microwave oven, to ... a new computer memory...
BRIGID QUINN I would not encourage anybody to start drinking if they do not already do so. People should also rea...
BRIGID MCKEVITH The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.
BRIGID BERLIN . . . blah blah blah and rhubarb.
BRIGID LOWRY That was the worst kind of hypocrisy, right? Hating someone for something you hated about yourself?
BRIGID KEMMERER Nick wanted to shove him off the bed and kick him in the face. Not aggressive, my ass.
BRIGID KEMMERER Gabriel woke him up at the crack of dawn with a cup of water to the face and a kick in the ribs.
BRIGID KEMMERER So Chris hit him?” said Quinn, when they were getting close to the bleachers. “Jesus, I love whe...
BRIGID KEMMERER Just a girl in my math class"
"Just a girl, huh?"
Gabriel glared at him. "Just a girl." BRIGID KEMMERER Life has a way of going in circles. Ideally, it would be a straight path forward––we'd always kn...
BRIGID GORRY-HINES