English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Dorothy Dunnett Quotes

Tais-toi. Your glove. Madame Erskine, procure me a large pin,’ said the Queen Dowager of Scotland. ‘I have yet to meet a man who can lay hands on a pin when there is need for it.

Dorothy Dunnett

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether there is in in the world any despair that would overcome this frantic and perhaps unseemly thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't... Fyodor Dostoevsky
That same spirit which makes us love the praise of men makes us dread the threats of men. You cannot be pleased with the adulation of mankind without becoming fearful of tour censure. Charles Spurgeon
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. Confucius
I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever. Brownie McGhee
This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules. Debbie Gibson
Arthur Young quote: "The purpose creates the machine."
The purpose creates the machine. Arthur Young
And is death not the ultimate orgasm, a return to that otherworldly ether, whose very origins were indeed a Big Bang, the ultimate explosion, the supreme chaos, whose resonance is the vibration we constantly seek to reproduce in everything we do. Lydia Lunch
The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness". Alain de Botton
Joel Kinnaman quote: "I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams."
I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams. Joel Kinnaman
Daniel Berrigan quote: "I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live."
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live. Daniel Berrigan
Aaron Eckhart quote: "There are different reasons to make movies."
There are different reasons to make movies. Aaron Eckhart
Ida B. Wells quote: "The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more..."
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. Ida B. Wells
Eudora Welty quote: "I've said what I had to say."
I've said what I had to say. Eudora Welty
If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that. John Lone
George Orwell quote: "Socialism does mean justice and liberty when the nonsense is..."
Socialism does mean justice and liberty when the nonsense is stripped off it. George Orwell