The Cavalier Quotes

Would that my mother could be author of my fate ... ! ~ M.H. Rakib

The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. For example, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M&S (God knows how many mouths have to be fed) depends directly on the number of copies of your new book [Life Before Man] that we are able to sell between September and Christmas. In past I have been able to treat this whole thing as a fun game. I have never been troubled by the cavalier explanations about lost manuscripts and fuck-ups of various sorts. Now I have learned that this is a deadly serious game. I don't laugh at jokes about the Canadian postal service. I cry. (in a letter to author Margaret Atwood, dated February, 1979) ~ Jack McClelland

Your conscience troubles you unnecessarily, and you see a deliberate intention in every simple act. ~ Emmuska Orczy

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable. ~ James Lee Burke

My first car was a Chevy Cavalier. My dad somehow convinced me that it was a hot sports car because it was red. ~ Katheryn Winnick

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech. ~ Marilyn Manson

Do you know how one knows a cavalier when one sees him? He always behaves decently when he is drunk. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

He made her laugh always made her taste a strange and exquisite bliss when he held her in his arms. ~ Emmuska Orczy

Avoid companies that are cavalier about issuing new options to managers ~ Aswath Damodaran

I'll call you Tuesday," he whispered. I lifted my wineglass his way and invited, "You do that." He didn't move. I took another sip of wine. When I lowered my glass, reading me yet again, he noted, "You're not gonna answer." "Nope," I replied, sounding shockingly cavalier considering my insides were bleeding. ~ Kristen Ashley

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective. ~ Rufus Sewell

I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up. ~ Corey Johnson

Would he ever lighten up? Do I even want him to? In a strange way, his domineering, cavalier attitude was a bit of a turn on. ~ C.C. Brown

Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me. ~ Greg Child

Since then her life had been peaceful and happy. She had allowed herself to be worshipped by that strangely captivating lover of hers, whose passionately willful temperament, tempered by that persistent, sunny gaiety, she had up to now only half understood. ~ Emmuska Orczy