Wanted Quote by Elizabeth Bowen Download Open image “...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.” — Elizabeth Bowen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Wanted
She did not want to be that woman - the one of whom they spoke. She had never planned to be that woman. Somehow,… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Being a 'Lady' used to be something to which all young women aspired. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“She folded her arms across her chest and cocked her head. "Who said I was a lady?” — Angela Scott Copy Share Image
But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Copy Share Image
“She could be the woman, the lady, who wished to be proper, who wished to please, as well as the wanton she obviously was… — Lacy Danes Copy Share Image
Any girl who would risk her life for someone she loves certainly deserves to be called a lady. — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“No woman can fully understand nor appreciate her femininity without the help of a man, even if he only exists in her imagination.” — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose it's a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I would tell kids not be like me, but to try and be better than me. Because I always wanted to be better than… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to… — Gaylord Perry Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
