[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. J. K. ROWLING I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Students who do not use their textbooks, attend classes or complete assignments are only denying the... JACK MURPHY Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. DOROTHY DAY 14th-century pope with a 21st-century communications network (that) sustains his church's mission of... GEORGE MONBIOT Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again. MARK TWAIN 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 Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinfor... B. F. SKINNER Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate... CHARLES CALEB COLTON Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalit... NAOMI WOLF 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 I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. AUGUSTUS A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. FREDERICK THE GREAT
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SAYERS Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrs... DOROTHY L. SAYERS THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims... DOROTHY L. SAYERS "The Kingdom of Heaven", said the Lord Christ, "is among you." But what, precisely, is the Kingdom o... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Feast of Thomas the Apostle Those who make it a reproach to Christianity that it taught no new mo... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Continuing a short series on sin: Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. DOROTHY L. SAYERS Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away. DOROTHY L. SAYERS The first thing a principle does is kill somebody DOROTHY L. SAYERS And by the way, my dear,' he said, 'you might just mention to Mrs. Sutton that if she must read the ... 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SAYERS Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and lea... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who make some other person their job . . . are dangerous. DOROTHY L. SAYERS In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in noth... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the mos... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Why do you want a letter from me? Why don't you take the trouble to find out for yourselves what Chr... DOROTHY L. SAYERS But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much las... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want... DOROTHY L. SAYERS For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and wha... DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS I love you - I am at rest with you- I have come home. DOROTHY L. SAYERS Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Work is not primarily a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is or it should be... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The two men sat silent for a little, and then Lord Peter said: "D'you like your job?" DOROTHY L. SAYERS Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS You may say you won’t interfere with another person’s soul, but you do—merely by existing. The... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they w... DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm cer... DOROTHY L. SAYERS [On marriage and permanent attachment:] Well, well -- the prizes all go to the women who ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I d... DOROTHY L. SAYERS I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally. DOROTHY L. SAYERS [T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th... DOROTHY L. SAYERS We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting t... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with... DOROTHY L. SAYERS How should anything be sacred to an advertiser?" demanded Ingleby, helping himself to four lumps of ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the... DOROTHY L. SAYERS There, eastward, within a stone’s throw, stood the twin towers of All Souls, fantastic, unreal as ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The mellow bells, soaring and singing in tower and steeple, told of time's flight through an eternit... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The people who are most discouraged and made despondent by the barbarity and stupidity of human beha... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, ho... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, c... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of c... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper DOROTHY L. SAYERS Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be. DOROTHY L. SAYERS Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Experience has taught me," said Peter (...) "that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he shou... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood... DOROTHY L. SAYERS The boat rocked perilously as they heaved and tore at the clinging weeds, razor-sharp and strong as ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Peter—do please be happy. I mean, you’ve always been the comfortable sort of person that nothing... DOROTHY L. SAYERS I say--I've thought of a good plot for a detective story." "Really?" "Top--hole. 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We have a lot of vibrant people in the neighborhood wanti... JENNIFER SAYERS There's been a fabulous resurgence of people fixing up homes. The house values are steadily increasi... JENNIFER SAYERS Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old an... DOROTHY THOMPSON I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is t... DOROTHY DIX Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries... DOROTHY DUNNETT My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish! DOROTHY KILGALLEN That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it... DOROTHY PARKER You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy. DOROTHY DIX You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think. DOROTHY PARKER It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that mak... DOROTHY DIX Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. DOROTHY PARKER The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down! DOROTHY DAY I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. DOROTHY PARKER Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basi... DOROTHY RIERA The friends I made have slipped and strayed. And who's the one that cares A trifling lot and... DOROTHY PARKER Work is the province of cattle. DOROTHY PARKER I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to th... DOROTHY HAMILL I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed wa... DOROTHY HAMILL Once when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And ... DOROTHY PARKER Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts a... DOROTHY PARKER If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it'... DOROTHY PARKER This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. DOROTHY PARKER Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And what's a girl, to dare implore DOROTHY PARKER I never see the prettiest thing - A cherry bough gone white with Spring - But what I think, Ho... DOROTHY PARKER Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con... DOROTHY THOMPSON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out ... DOROTHY PARKER The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhap... DOROTHY NEVILL Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live DOROTHY THOMPSON Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of... DOROTHY ALLISON The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o... DOROTHY PARKER If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up. DOROTHY GAMBRELL If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, ... DOROTHY PARKER Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies. DOROTHY ALLISON Oh seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday DOROTHY PARKER If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I... DOROTHY PARKER