Traps Quotes
456 quotes by 373 authors
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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final…
— Frank O'Hara
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Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?
— Milan Kundera
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You trap yourself sometimes, by thinking desire and need is love. Love is something far more precious, but something far more fragile. As fragile as…
— Virginia C. Andrews
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She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.
— Jane Austen
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There will be guards,†Bast said. “And traps. And alarms. You can bet the house is heavily charmed to keep out gods.†“Magicians can do…
— Rick Riordan
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Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. “Hang on. What about traps?†He frowned. “Traps?†“Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?†“Well…sometimes. But…
— Rick Riordan
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Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she…
— Elizabeth Wein
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I did what I have been told to do by my queen. In so doing, I fell into a trap I couldn't escape. I still…
— Charlaine Harris
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Not if we blow it up," Gale says brusquely. His intent, his full intent, becomes clear. Gale has no interest in preserving the lives of…
— Suzanne Collins
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I could have told him that nothing was safe and that no matter how careful you were and how hard you tried, there were still…
— Jennifer Weiner
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And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,†the Mayor says,…
— Patrick Ness
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Traveling through the Dragon's Den, it has just been explained that Haroun, the Ifrit, has been caught in a mirror trap. Here is the passage…
— Neil Gaiman
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It was fine," I said stiffly. "We played Mouse Trap." "Is that what they're calling it these days?" she asked, throwing me a terrible grin.…
— Maureen Johnson
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Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the…
— Homer
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Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,†she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh,…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature, a rose in…
— Edmond Rostand
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Michael!†Oliver’s voice came faint through the front door. “Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!†“Trap,†Shane said instantly, and reached…
— Rachel Caine
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Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.
— Anna Godbersen
Who Wrote These Traps Quotes
373 authors contributed a total of 456 Traps Quotes, led by these top contributors: