Andrea Zuvich > Andrea's Quotes

“Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
― George Macaulay Trevelyan

“It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

“If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

“He purchased that great canvas also bearing the likeness to his beloved, for he could not bear another to look upon what he dreamed each night...but as he now had enjoyed the quite singular pleasure of his wife's true form revealed to him, he knew he would have [it] returned... At one time he had thought it quite impossible, but now he understood how truly inadequate the vision cast by his mind's eye had been.”
― Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues

“I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed.”
― Andrea Zuvich, His Last Mistress

“Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume.”
― Andrea Zuvich, His Last Mistress

“They do not call him the terror of husbands and lovers for no reason...”
― Andrea Zuvich, His Last Mistress

“She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!”
― Andrea Zuvich, His Last Mistress

“I have lived recklessly, gambled my income away at the horse races, gone whoring, have been more drunk than sober, beaten men to a pulp with my hands, have had a man’s nose cut off for insulting my father and have been indebted to villains more times than I care to say. But, I do not want to live like this anymore. I want a quiet life with a good woman who will care and love me – not for being the Duke of Monmouth, but for me, Jemmy.”
― Andrea Zuvich, His Last Mistress

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“The Devil always takes back his own.”
― Andrea Zuvich, The Stuart Vampire

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics

“A determined man, a man who believes himself grossly abused, does not listen to reason”
― Lucinda Brant, Midnight Marriage

“I prefer to be left alone with my books.”
― Alison Weir, Innocent Traitor

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“These are the times that try men's souls.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen that which would have made her own sufferings seem but light and easy to bear--a strong man, overwhelmed with his own passion and despair. Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone: the will was powerless. He was but a man madly, blindly, passionately in love and as soon as her light footstep had died away within the house, he knelt down upon the terrace steps, and in the very madness of his love he kissed one by one the places where her small foot had trodden, and the stone balustrade, where her tiny hand had rested last.”
― Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.”
― Simon Schama, Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations

“A woman that you find different or strange, or whom you may envy or covet is deemed by you all to be a witch! Anything that you do not understand, you deem witchcraft!”
― Andrea Zuvich, The Stuart Vampire

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
― Thomas Hobbes

“You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other...”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Our love will be the light and the darkness shall perish beneath the weight of it.”
― Andrea Zuvich, The Stuart Vampire

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Low ceilings cramp your thoughts, whereas vaulted ceilings, especially if they are circular and open to natural light, tend to release your thoughts, to let them rise.”
― David Long, The Inhabited World