--- title: "Famous Historical-romance Sayings" description: "Browse 464 Historical-romance quotes by 139 authors. Discover the best Historical-romance sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/a-s-byatt-5275_classics_they-did-go-on-so-don-t-you-think-those_2992618.png" --- > [“They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously?' he said, pushing the lift…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/they-did-go-on-so-don-t-you-think-those-victorian-poets-they-took/) [A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/a-s-byatt-5275_classics_they-did-go-on-so-don-t-you-think-those_2992618.png) > [“Glen Shiel, Socttish Highlands, 1296 Strife abounds. King Edward of England has invaded the southern strongholds of Scotland and is pressuring King…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-m-grant/glen-shiel-socttish-highlands-1296-strife-abounds-king-edward-of/) [Jean M. Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-m-grant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/jean-m-grant-40192_ancients_glen-shiel-socttish-highlands-1296-strif_2555011.jpg) > [“She needed a distraction. “Was that your mother?” The splashing stopped. “Are you going to converse while I bathe?” “Why not?” “Feels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-quarles/she-needed-a-distraction-was-that-your-mother-the-splashing-stopped/) [Angela Quarles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-quarles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9de/angela-quarles-20046_castles_she-needed-a-distraction-was-that-your-m_2468710.jpg) > [“And then she fell into his arms. It was what he’d dreamed of on sleepless nights, holding her, feeling the press of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gayle-callen/and-then-she-fell-into-his-arms-it-was-what-he-d-dreamed-of-on/) [Gayle Callen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gayle-callen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/264/gayle-callen-102263_historical-romance_and-then-she-fell-into-his-arms-it-was-w_660297.jpg) > [“Would you like me to court you?” the earl finally asked. YES. She smoothed her hands over her skirts to keep from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-linden/would-you-like-me-to-court-you-the-earl-finally-asked-yes-she/) [Caroline Linden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-linden/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04e/caroline-linden-49890_earl_would-you-like-me-to-court-you-the-earl_2076921.jpg) > [“He stared down into her smiling face, his expression softening. Before Caroline could react, he reached out and plucked her spectacles from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-kleypas/he-stared-down-into-her-smiling-face-his-expression-softening-before/) [Lisa Kleypas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-kleypas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/412/lisa-kleypas-111_historical-romance_he-stared-down-into-her-smiling-face-his_1480880.jpg) > [“Happy? Most of the time? Happiness is always a fleeting thing," he said, "It never rests upon anyone as a permanent state,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-balogh/happy-most-of-the-time-happiness-is-always-a-fleeting-thing-he-said/) [Mary Balogh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-balogh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ede/mary-balogh-914_happiness_happy-most-of-the-time-happiness-is-alwa_2378182.png) > [“And then you realize one day that you can't remember her scent and nothing smells like her anymore. You can't remember how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desiree-banks/and-then-you-realize-one-day-that-you-can-t-remember-her-scent-and/) [Desiree Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desiree-banks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42e/desiree-banks-232477_every-day_and-then-you-realize-one-day-that-you-ca_2681304.jpg) > [“... not within my memory." "All 300 years of it?" That comment earned her a frown. "My apologies," she amended lightly. "I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shelly-thacker/not-within-my-memory-all-300-years-of-it-that-comment-earned-her-a/) [Shelly Thacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shelly-thacker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/shelly-thacker-30524_historical-romance_not-within-my-memory-all-300-years-of-it_1149395.jpg) > [“Under the sanctuary are the catacombs where the dead wait for resurrection. The living do not venture there. The caverns here underneath…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-hayes/under-the-sanctuary-are-the-catacombs-where-the-dead-wait-for/) [Ned Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ned-hayes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/967/ned-hayes-25391_historical_under-the-sanctuary-are-the-catacombs-wh_1461160.jpg) > [“Griff had never been the fanciful sort, even as a boy. When he was with Pauline, the world was different. She forced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-dare/griff-had-never-been-the-fanciful-sort-even-as-a-boy-when-he-was-with/) [Tessa Dare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-dare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/tessa-dare-564_historical-romance_griff-had-never-been-the-fanciful-sort-e_638807.png) > [“His head snapped sharply aside to collide with his own aching shoulder. The hulking brute he had heard referred to as Abdullah…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-carnes/his-head-snapped-sharply-aside-to-collide-with-his-own-aching/) [V.S. Carnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-carnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/v-s-carnes-10874_christian_his-head-snapped-sharply-aside-to-collid_2724386.jpg) > [“U njezinim očima drhtale su suze...A on je osjećao da pripadaju njemu...Sva mu duša zatrepti. Nije vidio ništa drugo nego njezine suzne…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marija-juri-zagorka/u-njezinim-o-ima-drhtale-su-suze-a-on-je-osje-ao-da-pripadaju-njemu/) [Marija Jurić Zagorka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marija-juri-zagorka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aba/marija-juri-zagorka-5610_historical-romance_u-njezinim-o-ima-drhtale-su-suze-a-on-je_1875374.jpg) > [“Najviše pozornosti treba posvetiti puku, a dosljedno tome njegovoj zemlji, iz koje sve proizlazi, u koju se sve vraća. Nazor manjine da…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marija-juri-zagorka/najvi-e-pozornosti-treba-posvetiti-puku-a-dosljedno-tome-njegovoj/) [Marija Jurić Zagorka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marija-juri-zagorka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22d/marija-juri-zagorka-5610_historical-romance_najvi-e-pozornosti-treba-posvetiti-puku_360332.jpg) > [“Oh! my dearest love, why are our pleasures so short and so interrupted? How long is this to last? Know you, my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-kelahan/oh-my-dearest-love-why-are-our-pleasures-so-short-and-so-interrupted/) [Michael Kelahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-kelahan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/michael-kelahan-39744_historical-romance_oh-my-dearest-love-why-are-our-pleasures_1023660.jpg) > [“Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-a-lossl/sometimes-time-can-play-tricks-one-moment-it-idles-by-an-hour-can/) [M.A. Lossl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-a-lossl/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/m-a-lossl-159601_art-of-war_sometimes-time-can-play-tricks-one-momen_1022066.jpg) > [“Just say, dakhilak.” Without hesitation, “Dakhilak.” He nodded. Her accent was getting no better. “Now, you can never take it back.” “Well,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-carnes/just-say-dakhilak-without-hesitation-dakhilak-he-nodded-her-accent/) [V.S. Carnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-s-carnes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80f/v-s-carnes-10874_better-now_just-say-dakhilak-without-hesitation-dak_51498.jpg) > [“People, her people at least, were always chasing shattered hopes. A father gazing down on dead soil, with a brood of hollow-cheeked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-cruel-harvest/people-her-people-at-least-were-always-chasing-shattered-hopes-a/) [A Cruel Harvest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-cruel-harvest/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/585/a-cruel-harvest-131748_children_people-her-people-at-least-were-always-c_1336312.jpg) > [“Everything in his life backfired. First that rocket at Waterloo. Then his engagement. Now this whole blasted arrangement with Emma. Despite the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-dare/everything-in-his-life-backfired-first-that-rocket-at-waterloo-then/) [Tessa Dare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-dare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/tessa-dare-564_historical-romance_everything-in-his-life-backfired-first-t_3198727.png) > [“Would you like more sauce, sweeting?” His fingers strangled the stem of his wineglass. She could practically hear the grapes calling for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-dare/would-you-like-more-sauce-sweeting-his-fingers-strangled-the-stem-of/) [Tessa Dare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-dare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b2/tessa-dare-564_historical-romance_would-you-like-more-sauce-sweeting-his-f_1510953.png) > [“Lord Randall barreled inside, brandishing his cane in Drew's face. "You beggarly knave, I was told this marriage was in name only!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deeanne-gist/lord-randall-barreled-inside-brandishing-his-cane-in-drew-s-face-you/) [Deeanne Gist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deeanne-gist/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a9/deeanne-gist-22561_a-bride-most-begrudg_lord-randall-barreled-inside-brandishing_377269.jpg) > [“Čovjek može uvijek biti tvrd, uvijek je kao kamenita gora, samo u jednom jedinom je priroda s nama infamna: u ljubavi nas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marija-juri-zagorka/ovjek-mo-e-uvijek-biti-tvrd-uvijek-je-kao-kamenita-gora-samo-u-jednom/) [Marija Jurić Zagorka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marija-juri-zagorka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad3/marija-juri-zagorka-5610_historical-romance_ovjek-mo-e-uvijek-biti-tvrd-uvijek-je-ka_2577492.jpg) > [“Doubtless Princess Juliana intended for me to overhear her comment on seeing Theodora in wedding regalia. “She’s like wisteria: beautiful in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-strickland/doubtless-princess-juliana-intended-for-me-to-overhear-her-comment-on/) [Carol Strickland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-strickland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7c/carol-strickland-86063_ancient_doubtless-princess-juliana-intended-for_539700.jpg) > [“She told him ... how her heart had fairly skipped a beat when she'd seen him standing in the middle of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pamela-clare/she-told-him-how-her-heart-had-fairly-skipped-a-beat-when-she-d-seen/) [Pamela Clare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pamela-clare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6d/pamela-clare-3224_historical-romance_she-told-him-how-her-heart-had-fairly-sk_963758.png) ## Top authors on Historical-romance - [Marija Jurić Zagorka 61 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/historical-romance/marija-juri-zagorka/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tessa-dare-89567.jpg) Tessa Dare 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/historical-romance/tessa-dare/) - [Pamela Clare 19 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/historical-romance/pamela-clare/) - [Nancy B. 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I can't see.\" Andrew extracted a folded handkerchief from his pocket and polished the lenses. \"It's no wonder your eyes are weak, the way you go about with your spectacles smudged.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lisa Kleypas" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-kleypas/he-stared-down-into-her-smiling-face-his-expression-softening-before/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/412/lisa-kleypas-111_historical-romance_he-stared-down-into-her-smiling-face-his_1480880.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/412/lisa-kleypas-111_historical-romance_he-stared-down-into-her-smiling-face-his_1480880.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/412/lisa-kleypas-111_historical-romance_he-stared-down-into-her-smiling-face-his_1480880.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He stared down into her smiling face, his expression softening. Before Caroline could react, he reached out…” — Lisa Kleypas", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Happy? Most of the time? Happiness is always a fleeting thing,\" he said, \"It never rests upon anyone as a permanent state, though many of us persist in believing in the foolish idea that if this would just happen or that we would be happy for the rest of our lives. I know moments of happiness just as most other people do. Perhaps I have learned to find it in ways that would pass some people by. I feel the summer heat here at this moment and see the trees and the water and hear that invisible gull overhead. I feel the novelty of having company when I usually come here alone. 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Happiness is always a fleeting thing,\" he said, \"It never rests upon anyone as a…” — Mary Balogh", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And then you realize one day that you can't remember her scent and nothing smells like her anymore. You can't remember how she feels or the sound of her voice. You haven't thought of her every second of every day. Then--then you feel more alone than on the day you lost her.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Desiree Banks" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desiree-banks/and-then-you-realize-one-day-that-you-can-t-remember-her-scent-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42e/desiree-banks-232477_every-day_and-then-you-realize-one-day-that-you-ca_2681304.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42e/desiree-banks-232477_every-day_and-then-you-realize-one-day-that-you-ca_2681304.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42e/desiree-banks-232477_every-day_and-then-you-realize-one-day-that-you-ca_2681304.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And then you realize one day that you can't remember her scent and nothing smells like her anymore. 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Mayhap I should demonstrate.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Shelly Thacker" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shelly-thacker/not-within-my-memory-all-300-years-of-it-that-comment-earned-her-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/shelly-thacker-30524_historical-romance_not-within-my-memory-all-300-years-of-it_1149395.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/shelly-thacker-30524_historical-romance_not-within-my-memory-all-300-years-of-it_1149395.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/shelly-thacker-30524_historical-romance_not-within-my-memory-all-300-years-of-it_1149395.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“... not within my memory.\" \"All 300 years of it?\" That comment earned her a frown. \"My apologies,\" she…” — Shelly Thacker", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Under the sanctuary are the catacombs where the dead wait for resurrection. The living do not venture there. The caverns here underneath the Sanctuary are illuminated only by dim shafts of light from the sanctuary. The walls are etched with flowers of frost, but at least I am out of the wind. Dark bays line the hall in front of me, a vast rabbit warren, each hold filled to the brim with the scent of the past.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ned Hayes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ned-hayes/under-the-sanctuary-are-the-catacombs-where-the-dead-wait-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/967/ned-hayes-25391_historical_under-the-sanctuary-are-the-catacombs-wh_1461160.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/967/ned-hayes-25391_historical_under-the-sanctuary-are-the-catacombs-wh_1461160.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/967/ned-hayes-25391_historical_under-the-sanctuary-are-the-catacombs-wh_1461160.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Under the sanctuary are the catacombs where the dead wait for resurrection. 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A ferry across the Thames was an epic journey, and a kiss . . . a kiss was everything.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tessa Dare" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-dare/griff-had-never-been-the-fanciful-sort-even-as-a-boy-when-he-was-with/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/tessa-dare-564_historical-romance_griff-had-never-been-the-fanciful-sort-e_638807.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/tessa-dare-564_historical-romance_griff-had-never-been-the-fanciful-sort-e_638807.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/tessa-dare-564_historical-romance_griff-had-never-been-the-fanciful-sort-e_638807.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Griff had never been the fanciful sort, even as a boy. 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Carnes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-s-carnes/his-head-snapped-sharply-aside-to-collide-with-his-own-aching/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/v-s-carnes-10874_christian_his-head-snapped-sharply-aside-to-collid_2724386.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/v-s-carnes-10874_christian_his-head-snapped-sharply-aside-to-collid_2724386.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/778/v-s-carnes-10874_christian_his-head-snapped-sharply-aside-to-collid_2724386.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“His head snapped sharply aside to collide with his own aching shoulder. The hulking brute he had heard…” — V.S. Carnes", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“U njezinim očima drhtale su suze...A on je osjećao da pripadaju njemu...Sva mu duša zatrepti. Nije vidio ništa drugo nego njezine suzne oči, ni na šta nije više mislio, samo je osjećao nju. U tom osjećaju povuče njezine ruke i privine ih na svoje grudi. Ona se nije opirala. Osjećala je da mu srce burno udara, da je svaki udar jedan krik za njom, vapaj k njoj, da je svaki dah ovog muškarca njezin...Kroz tvrdi oklop kojim je okovala svoje srce provali zatajena ljubav. Misli i razbor utekoše, ona klone na njegove grudi...Zadrhtao je kao trstika, kad je zahvati vihor. Njegove jake ruke obuhvate je, privinu k sebi tako čvrsto, silno i pohlepno kao da će je pretvoriti u sebe. Sve misli, sav razbor zanijemiše, obamriješe. Samo srca šapću, dozivaju se i cjelivaju u besvjesnom omamnom zagrljaju. Sunce se spuštalo na zapad i kroz velike prozore opraštalo se s njima svojim krvavim suzama. Tiho i nečujno šuljaju se trenuci da ih ne probude iz sna.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marija Jurić Zagorka" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marija-juri-zagorka/u-njezinim-o-ima-drhtale-su-suze-a-on-je-osje-ao-da-pripadaju-njemu/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aba/marija-juri-zagorka-5610_historical-romance_u-njezinim-o-ima-drhtale-su-suze-a-on-je_1875374.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aba/marija-juri-zagorka-5610_historical-romance_u-njezinim-o-ima-drhtale-su-suze-a-on-je_1875374.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aba/marija-juri-zagorka-5610_historical-romance_u-njezinim-o-ima-drhtale-su-suze-a-on-je_1875374.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“U njezinim očima drhtale su suze...A on je osjećao da pripadaju njemu...Sva mu duša zatrepti. Nije vidio…” — Marija Jurić Zagorka", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Najviše pozornosti treba posvetiti puku, a dosljedno tome njegovoj zemlji, iz koje sve proizlazi, u koju se sve vraća. Nazor manjine da je primila svoje privilegije po milosti Božjoj u svoju vlast jednako je apsurdan kao što bi bio apsurdan vladar koji bi sebi utvarao da zemlja kojom vlada pripada njemu, a ne državljanima; kad bi si vladar utvarao da su milijuni stvoreni za njega. Jer zapravo je vladar ovdje samo zato da milijunima služi! Vladar nije ništa drugo nego vrhovni činovnik države. Vladar, to nije čast, to je dužnost prema narodu.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Marija Jurić Zagorka" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marija-juri-zagorka/najvi-e-pozornosti-treba-posvetiti-puku-a-dosljedno-tome-njegovoj/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22d/marija-juri-zagorka-5610_historical-romance_najvi-e-pozornosti-treba-posvetiti-puku_360332.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22d/marija-juri-zagorka-5610_historical-romance_najvi-e-pozornosti-treba-posvetiti-puku_360332.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22d/marija-juri-zagorka-5610_historical-romance_najvi-e-pozornosti-treba-posvetiti-puku_360332.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Najviše pozornosti treba posvetiti puku, a dosljedno tome njegovoj zemlji, iz koje sve proizlazi, u koju se…” — Marija Jurić Zagorka", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Oh! my dearest love, why are our pleasures so short and so interrupted? How long is this to last? Know you, my best Mary, that I feel myself, in your absence, almost degraded to the level of the vulgar and impure. I feel their vacant, stiff eyeballs fixed upon me, until I seem to have been infected with their loathsome meaning--to inhale a sickness that subdues me to languor. Oh! those redeeming eyes of Mary, that they might beam upon me before I sleep! Praise my forbearance--oh! beloved one--that I do not rashly fly to you, and at least secure a moment's bliss. Wherefore should I delay; do you not long to meet me? All that is exalted and buoyant in my nature urges me towards you, reproaches me with the cold delay, laughs at all fear and spurns to dream of prudence. Why am I not with you?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Kelahan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-kelahan/oh-my-dearest-love-why-are-our-pleasures-so-short-and-so-interrupted/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/michael-kelahan-39744_historical-romance_oh-my-dearest-love-why-are-our-pleasures_1023660.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/michael-kelahan-39744_historical-romance_oh-my-dearest-love-why-are-our-pleasures_1023660.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc6/michael-kelahan-39744_historical-romance_oh-my-dearest-love-why-are-our-pleasures_1023660.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Oh! my dearest love, why are our pleasures so short and so interrupted? How long is this to last? Know you…” — Michael Kelahan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the breaching fish causing ringed ripples and a satisfying plop. Other times, time flashes by in an immodest fashion. So it is with the start of war. First time quivers with the last strum of a wonderful peace, the note holding in the air, mysterious and haunting, filling the listener with awe. Then, with a rising crescendo the terror starts with uncouth haste; with a boom the listener is shaken from their reverie and delivered into the servitude, of an ear-shattering cacophony.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "M.A. Lossl" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-a-lossl/sometimes-time-can-play-tricks-one-moment-it-idles-by-an-hour-can/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/m-a-lossl-159601_art-of-war_sometimes-time-can-play-tricks-one-momen_1022066.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/m-a-lossl-159601_art-of-war_sometimes-time-can-play-tricks-one-momen_1022066.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/m-a-lossl-159601_art-of-war_sometimes-time-can-play-tricks-one-momen_1022066.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sometimes time can play tricks. 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No man should have to suffer through what I do with the constant spouting of the most addlepated word puzzles you could imagine.\" ----------------------------------------- \"I require fifteen thousand pounds.\" Lord Randall spewed ale across the floor. \"What! Surely drink has tickled your poor brain. You're a FARMER, you impudent rascal. I'll give you five thousand.\" Drew plopped his drink onto the table at his side, its contents sloshing over the rim. A satisfied smile broke across his face. \"Excellent.\" He stood. \"When will you take her back to England with you? Today? Tomorrow?\" The old man's red-rimmed eyes widened. \"I cannot take her back. 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