Carriages Quotes
107 quotes by 93 authors
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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
— Lillian Hellman
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What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as…
— Dolley Madison
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When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there…
— Jane Smiley
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Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.
— Henry James
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for…
— George Bernard Shaw
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But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a…
— Libba Bray
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Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars…
— Brian Selznick
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All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but…
— John Lubbock
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has…
— John Burroughs
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She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate…
— Alice Sebold
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My feet is my only carriage.
— Bob Marley
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The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out…
— George Orwell
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Hello?†I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall. “And may…
— Mira Grant
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He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.
— Patrick Süskind
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Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something…
— Cassandra Clare
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Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the…
— P.W. Catanese
Who Wrote These Carriages Quotes
93 authors contributed a total of 107 Carriages Quotes, led by these top contributors: