Letitia And Criminy Quotes

Let me guess. You think we're going to live happily ever after, like some stupid fairy tale?"
"Why not?" His stare dared me to laugh or, worse, to argue.
"Because the whole thing is ridiculous," I said. I despised the bitterness in my own voice. I sounded so damaged. Good. If he thought I was his soul mate for some mysterious reason he wouldn't let on, let him see the worst of me.
"It's not ridiculous to me. Perhaps that's the difference between predators and prey, love. I'll never stop hunting. But I expect that one day, you'll stop running."
"Because I want to die?"
"Because you want to live. ~ Delilah S. Dawson

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Are you saying that was real magic?" I said. "That's crazy."
"Well, let's see. Are you telling me you just saw the past in a vision. That a monkey in a top hat was trying to murder my chief costumer and head accountant with the most powerful poison in existence using her makeup jar? If so, perhaps I'm not the crazy one here. ~ Delilah S. Dawson

Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

You don't need the White House to please people. You can be 24, earning $22,000 a year, and have people over to your tiny apartment. It's all about sharing and thinking about what will make others happy. ~ Letitia Baldrige

Youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The wind has a language, I would I could learn!
Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern,
Sometimes it comes like a low sweet song,
And all things grow calm, as the sound floats along,
And the forest is lull'd by the dreamy strain,
And slumber sinks down on the wandering main,
And its crystal arms are folded in rest,
And the tall ship sleeps on its heaving breast. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend ... ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning! ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I've had three broken legs and two knee replacements. But I'm very good at apres golf. ~ Letitia Baldrige

Charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings. ~ Letitia Baldrige

Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet. ~ Letitia Baldrige

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

Were it not better to forget
Than but remember and regret ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Eating American-style, you put the knife down and clang. Continental is silent and efficient. ~ Letitia Baldrige

The Kennedys tried to avoid using the big U-shaped table, but when they couldn't, they had several tricks - including keeping the flowers simple - to keep it from appearing overly stiff and formal. ~ Letitia Baldrige

I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men. ~ Letitia Baldrige

We need grace in our lives, and I'm not talking about heavenly grace. I'm talking about human grace. We should try and be warm and friendly. ~ Letitia Baldrige

Many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

He was watching me, and he chuckled.
"Do you know how a man tames a wolf?" he asked me.
"No," I said.
"You get some clothing that you've been wearing for a while, and you toss it in with her. In the cage or the cavern where she sleeps. That first one, she rips up, shreds it to nothing. The second one, she just mouths it a bit, gets a taste. Inhales, like you're doing there. The third but of clothing, she starts dragging it around, loving on it, sleeping with it. And then you've got her under your spell. She's got the scent of you, wants to keep it around. She'll follow you everywhere."
"Are you calling me a wolf?" I asked.
"Are you calling me a man?" he said. ~ Delilah S. Dawson

From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes, anyway. ~ Letitia Baldrige

You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

I'm a businesswoman, and Ms. is an appropriate form of address. ~ Letitia Baldrige

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

It's very important with these young people who are graduating and getting married to write thank-you notes. ~ Letitia Baldrige

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Going to a party uninvited always has been a negative action. It never has been acceptable. At the very least, it upsets kitchen preparations, parking arrangements, and even details such as space for hanging coats and depositing dripping umbrellas. ~ Letitia Baldrige

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

An FBI agent, huh?" Trish's expression turned sly. "Is he foxy?"
"That whole story, about the strange coincidence, and my glorious Speech of Many Insults, and the fact that I'm going to be stuck running into this dude forever, and that's your first question? 'Is he foxy?'" Sidney shook her head. "Trishelle..on behalf of womankind, I was expecting a more enlightened discourse."
Trish simply waited.
"Totally foxy," Sidney said. "When he walked up to my table, my first thought was Criminy. Unfortunately, then he spoke."
Trish threw her arm around Sidney. "Somewhere out there, waiting for you, is the total package. A Criminy guy who's just looking for his Ms. Right to settle down with. ~ Julie James

At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations. ~ Letitia Baldrige

Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea ... ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

Why, Criminy Stain," I said. "You're a romantic."
"Oh, no," he said with a grin. "I'm fiendish and unscrupulous, a vicious killer and a thief and a bloodthirsty monster. And maybe a little romantic. But don't tell anyone, or my reputation's shot. ~ Delilah S. Dawson

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I talk about beepers going off in the middle of a concert and people being late and not apologizing, and people not RSVP-ing, and adult children going back to live with their parents, which we didn't have in the '60s and '70s. ~ Letitia Baldrige

I'm for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one's son to dance with the ugliest little girl in the room, that's the best lesson they can ever learn. ~ Letitia Baldrige

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die! ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret? ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water. ~ Anna Letitia Barbauld