Folliot Granville Quotes

Why do you assume I'm human?
I wasn't born; I was created just like this.
First I was an idea.
Then I came into being, charged with a very important task.
I've come to find the monster. ~ Eliza Granville

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't ~ Joseph Granville

One way or another, we're all prisoners. ~ Eliza Granville

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain. ~ George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they're carried away by the wind. ~ Eliza Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst. ~ George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

No one can be cured of being who they are. ~ Tilly Bagshawe

Perhaps... Perhaps he could make her happy. Not with the Granville money or his social cachet, but just by being the man he was, at his core. Sometimes, when he looked deep into those blue eyes, it felt like anything was possible. ~ Tessa Dare

Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great. ~ Clare Mulley

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools;
Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools:
Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;
Not left us women, or not threatened hell. ~ George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. ~ Evelyn Boyd Granville

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics. ~ Evelyn Boyd Granville

Then what had been at the bottom of his mind all along surfaced, like a rotten log in a swamp brought up by its own putrescent gases. A headline from last summer's newspaper: LOCAL MAN INDICTED FOR MURDER. A measure of peace returned to him. A feeling of self-confidence, of being in good hands. Granville Sutter, he thought. ~ William Gay

You're Piers Brandon, the Marquess of Granville, diplomat and secret agent in the Crown's service." She ran a fingertip down the noble slope of his nose. "And I'm Char - "
Her words were lost in a gasp.

With the speed and strength of a whip, he had her turned on her back, sprawled beneath him on the tufted carriage seat.
"You will be Lady Charlotte Brandon, the Marchioness of Granville, diplomat's wife and mother of my heir."
.......
"You'll be mine," he murmured. "I swear it, Charlotte. I will make you mine. ~ Tessa Dare

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame. ~ George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Markets will always move ahead of the news. ~ Joseph Granville

I think every intelligent woman should have a career. ~ Bonita Granville

At least we've still got each other.' Daniel squeezes my hand. I hadn't noticed he was holding it. 'We'll never be parted.'

'If you won't ever forsake me,' I say, comforted a little by realizing I can still remember Greet's stories, 'I won't forsake you. ~ Eliza Granville

Thamsine Granville had not begun the day with the intention of killing Oliver Cromwell. ~ Alison Stuart

Older, but no wiser. Alas, our dreams continue to haunt us. ~ Eliza Granville

Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone. ~ George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today. ~ Clare Mulley

May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day. ~ Christine Granville

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand? ~ George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

They've always told that when Granville was a boy he woke up one time in the middle of the night and she was settin on the side of the bed watchin him and she was holdin a butcher knife. Said she was watchin him, but it was like shewasn't really seein him. He laid awake the balance of the night waitin to see what she'd do, then he took to sleepin in the woods or in the barn. Just wherever. She'd set up all night like she was studyin about somethin. They took to hidin all the knives. ~ William Gay

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain. ~ George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree. ~ George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Swaggering in the coffee-houses and ruffling it in the streets were the men who had sailed with Frobisher and Drake and Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Hawkins, and Sir Richard Granville; had perhaps witnessed the heroic death of Sir Philip Sidney, at Zutphen; had served with Raleigh in Anjou, Picardy, Languedoc, in the Netherlands, in the Irish civil war; had taken part in the dispersion of the Spanish Armada, and in the bombardment of Cadiz; had filled their cups to the union of Scotland with England; had suffered shipwreck on the Barbary Coast, or had, by the fortune of war, felt the grip of the Spanish Inquisition; who could tell tales of the marvels seen in new-found America and the Indies, and, perhaps, like Captain John Smith, could mingle stories of the naive simplicity of the natives beyond the Atlantic, with charming narratives of the wars in Hungary, the beauties of the seraglio of the Grand Turk, and the barbaric pomp of the Khan of Tartary. ~ William Shakespeare

Granville did not come to enquire after me, as I had known he would not. I had always considered him made awkward by painful emotion, but now I considered that perhaps hew as only unfeeling. ~ Anna Freeman

Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake. ~ Clare Mulley