Well, do as you think best. That's every man's right and duty. But for me, I pledge you now I will not surrender one grain of my rights. What I took, I took and by God, I'll keep it, too. Take her home tomorrow, Archie, and never look back to watch what I do, for you know it before. I would not give him one knigh who had confided himself to me and none other, much less you. Only over my dead body," said Hotspur hardily, eye to eye with the friend he had made under Homildon Hill, "will King Henry ever claim you as his prisoner.
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EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. EDITH HAMILTON It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't. EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c... EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove... EDITH WHARTON My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. EDITH SITWELL Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret... EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh... EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio... EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t... EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality. EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. EDITH SITWELL Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi... EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t... EDITH HEAD Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunate... EDITH WIDDER Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo... EDITH STEIN Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. EDITH WIDDER Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's al... EDITH WIDDER Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a... EDITH HEAD I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth... EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. EDITH PIAF My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. EDITH WHARTON Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful... EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biolog... EDITH WIDDER Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. EDITH PIAF ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all... EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli... EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ... EDITH SITWELL In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce... EDITH WIDDER Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M... EDITH HEAD I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh... EDITH WIDDER Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'... EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri... EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free... EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated. EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ... EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard. EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey. EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. EDITH HEAD I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Las... EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and
abundance. Then, whenever ... EDITH ARMSTRONG Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope. EDITH WHARTON Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. EDITH SITWELL I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. EDITH SITWELL