Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Colin : “Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women.” Sugar Beth : “Well,… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man… — The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Copy Share Image
I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting… — Peter Viereck Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Kill! Kill! In the German race there is nothing but evil; not one among the living, not one among the yet unborn… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Winter will never come for the likes of us. Should we die in battle, they will surely sing of us, and it’s… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
“I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight,… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image