"Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when……" — Baroness Orczy
"Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed."
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Baroness Orczy
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24 Quotes by Baroness Orczy
Baroness Orczy has 24 quotes on this site.
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The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
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To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just…
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When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls,…
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In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the…
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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a…
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The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has…
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We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops
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She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely…
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A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution…
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I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the…
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When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their…
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Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon…
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More Crushed Quotes
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
— Jeff Bridges
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You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised.…
— Nick Clegg
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When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.
— Wes Fesler
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He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in…
— Murray Rothbard
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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look…
— Charles de Gaulle
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The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult…
— Erwin Rommel
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many…
— Walt Whitman
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments…
— Clarence Day
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown…
— George Sand
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the…
— Watchman Nee
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