Anne De Bourgh Quotes

#1. I am deeply honored that my team is being recognized by H.S.H. Prince Albert II and the Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo for Disney/ABC's role in creating television that inspires and captivates audiences wherever they live. - Author: Anne Sweeney

#2. The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which secures to every one his property. For the first persons who have employed themselves in cultivation, have probably worked as much land as their strength would permit, and, consequently, more than was necessary for their own nourishment. - Author: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune

#3. Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all. - Author: Anne Rice

#4. Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable. - Author: Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#5. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create. - Author: Anne Rice

#6. Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress. - Author: Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#7. Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither. - Author: Anne Rice

#8. We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting. - Author: Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#9. You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course. My reasons for believing it are briefly these: -- It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable. My situation in life, my connections with the family of De Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in its favor; and you should take it into farther consideration that in spite of your manifold attractions, it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made you. Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications. As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall chuse to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.
(Mr. Collins, after proposing to Elizabeth Bennet and being refused, in Pride and Prejudice.) - Author: Jane Austen

#10. Go to the theater, to museums, and to concerts as often as possible; it gives you a healthy glow. - Author: Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline De Maigret, Sophie Mas

#11. Every soil does not produce every material. - Author: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune

#12. We live forever; but they don't come back. - Author: Anne Rice

#13. He stood in the doorway, holding the back of his own arms. And I knew what I felt. It was a monstrous intimacy with another being, an intimacy that made even the rapt moments of life seem dim and under control. Never, never in all my existance had I been threateened with an intimacy quite like this. - Author: Anne Rice

#14. One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out ... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone! - Author: Anne Rice

#15. Austrians were allowed to paper over their pasts and portray themselves as unwilling participants. They felt sorry for themselves, and for the proud family names sullied with the taint of Nazi collaboration. The Cold War began in earnest, and the West was eager to hang on to Austria. A 1948 amnesty brought a premature end to Austrian de-Nazification. Austrians began to deny their jubilant welcome of Hitler and to claim that Austria had been "occupied" by Germany, like - Author: Anne-Marie O'Connor

#16. Never in all this time since you first came to me, never once have I ever looked into your eyes or heard your voice, or even thought of you, without feeling pain. It's the pain connected to loving you ,to realizing my limits, and what I'll never have. Do you remmeber feeling my heartbeat? You'll never feel such a rhythm as you will with me. I'm your Savage Garden, and yet so tame and soft and safe! - Author: Anne Rice

#17. I seek a woman, the woman of my desires. Who won't be scared by loyalty and truth, nor turn away from the darkness of a soiled past. – Decades - Author: Anne De Gandt

#18. I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me. - Author: Anne Rice

#19. Lestat: You're very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren't you? Why don't we simply get into bed together? I don't understand.
David: You're serious?
Lestat: Of course
David: You do realize, that this is an absolutely magnificent body, don't you? I mean you aren't insensible to the fact that you've been deposited in a ... a most impressive piece of young male flesh.
Lestat: I looked it over well before the switch, remember? Why is it you don't want to..
David: You've been with a woman, haven't you?
Lestat: I wish you hadn't read my mind. It's rude. Besides, what does that matter to you?
David: A woman you loved.
Lestat: I have always loved both men and women.
David: That's a slightly different use of the word 'love. - Author: Anne Rice

#20. Claudia, you've been a very very naughty little girl. - Author: Anne Rice

#21. I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do. - Author: Anne Rice

#22. All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality. - Author: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune

#23. We tend to mix genders when we arrange ourselves around a table for meetings. A sort of accommodation is made by the men for the women: they make space for us. they are ever-so-slightly polite, we are ever-so-slightly grateful. When we stand up at the end of a meeting, we all give ourselves a metaphorical shake that is only partly the relief of having concluded our business: we are all released from the effort of fitting ourselves together.
When men speak in these meetings, women relax; when women speak, men grow tense. I have the impression that they never know what a woman is going to say, whereas they are reasonably sure what a man will address himself to and how he will do it. So are the women; for them, too, men tend to be predictable. Women listen to women with a different kind of attention, and part of it may be loyalty to our gender; we want all of us to do well, as if we have the esprit de corps of subalterns among generals. - Author: Anne Truitt

#24. Politeness costs little and yields much. - Author: Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#25. All the old poetry makes sense when you look at one whom you have loved. - Author: Anne Rice

#26. And there were moments in this fetid little paradise when I prayed that in spite of everything I was capable of, I was somehow kin to every mortal. Maybe I was not the exotic outcast that I imagined, but merely the dim magnification of every human soul. Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all. And weary finally of this complexity, we dream of that long-ago time when each kiss was the pefect consummation of desire. What can we do but reach for the embrace that must now contain both heaven and hell: our doom again and again and agian. - Author: Anne Rice

#27. A dreadful suspicion was coming over me. Hadn't my mortal life been nothing but abysmal struggle and trivia and fear? Wasn't that the way it was for most mortals? Wasn't that the message of a score of modern writers and poets - that we wasted our lives in foolish preoccupation? Wasn't this all a miserable cliche? - Author: Anne Rice

#28. Upon my word," said her ladyship, "you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age? - Author: Jane Austen

#29. The night was waiting for me as always. And my thirst could wait no longer. I stood for a moment, head thrown back, eyes closed, and mouth open, feeling that thirst, and wanting to roar like a hungry beast. Yes, blood again when there is nothing else. When the world seems in all its beauty to be empty and heartless and I myself am utterly lost. Give me my old friend, death, and the blood that rushes with it. The Vampire Lestat is here, and he thirsts, and tonight of all nights, he will not be denied. - Author: Anne Rice

#30. Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum. - Author: Anne Rice

#31. And this notion of the meaninglessness of our lives here began to enflame us.
I took up the theme again that music and acting were good because they drove back chaos. Chaos was the meaninglessness of day-to-day life, and if we were to die now, our lives would have been nothing but meaninglessness. - Author: Anne Rice

#32. She dressed carefully in her favorite shade: pale green, more delicate than the earliest leaves, known as "waters of the Nile," or in the far more sophisticated French "eau de Nil." It was the softest silk, floating when she moved, and the sheen of it caught the light. Naturally it was the latest cut: soft at the shoulder and neck, smooth and slender at the hip. Pearls might have been more appropriate considering the name of the color, but she wore diamonds. She wanted the fire and the sparkle. - Author: Anne Perry

#33. Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born! - Author: Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#34. Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand. - Author: Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#35. Traitor," said Amel. "Slut." I tried to conceal my smile. I just love being called a slut. I don't know why. I just do. - Author: Anne Rice

#36. Finally those you love are simply ... those you love. - Author: Anne Rice

#37. Impromptu thoughts are mental wild-flowers. - Author: Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#38. Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own.
Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall.
Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this.
- Lestat de Lioncourt - Author: Anne Rice

#39. What would Christ need have done to make me follow him like Matthew or Peter? Dress well, to begin with. And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair - Author: Anne Rice

#40. I'm a little sadder for all of it, and a little meaner and a little more conscientious as well. - Author: Anne Rice

#41. Temperance adds zest to pleasure. - Author: Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#42. Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence. - Author: Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

#43. I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing. - Author: Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

#44. It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be. - Mary Anne Radmacher - Author: Barbara De Angelis