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Thorns Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- ...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous…
- Look at this tangle of thorns.
- Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
More Thorns Quotes
- The only rose without thorns is friendship. — Madeleine de Scudery
- Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you… — Martin Luther
- Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery… — Laozi
- There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has… — Pope Gregory I
- That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy. — Aberjhani
- The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly. — Joseph Simmons
- Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks,… — Pablo Neruda
- We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns. — Orison Swett Marden
- When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border… — Samuel Rutherford
- At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from… — Ellen Key
- Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest… — John Bunyan
- There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there… — Anna Letitia Barbauld