« All Strangely Quotes
·
Stacy Schiff's Page
Strangely Quotes by Stacy Schiff
1 Strangely quote by Stacy Schiff
More Quotes by Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to…
-
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'
-
Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
-
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan.…
-
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what…
-
We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been…
-
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a…
-
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come…
-
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams,…
-
My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the…
-
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in…
-
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a…
See all 31 quotes by Stacy Schiff »
More Strangely Quotes
Popular Strangely quotes from across the collection:
-
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
— Saint Augustine
-
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
— Samuel Adams
-
Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
— David Bowie
-
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
— Sitting Bull
-
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.
— David Byrne
-
If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense…
— Nick Cave
-
Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of…
— Nick Clegg
-
Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow…
— John Aubrey
-
It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their…
— Douglas MacArthur
-
What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
— Emile M. Cioran
See all Strangely Quotes »
Browse Stacy Schiff Quotes by Category