"Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the……" — Frances Hardinge
"Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches..."
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42 Quotes by Frances Hardinge
Frances Hardinge has 42 quotes on this site.
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Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page…
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Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
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True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
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If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do…
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Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain…
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Where is your sense of patriotism?" I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent.…
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If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never…
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The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.
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I want my chirfugging goose back!
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You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable. -Eponymous Clent
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I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose…
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Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be…
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More Breeches Quotes
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one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your…
— George Canning
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One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My…
— William Crawford Williamson
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All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have…
— Laurence Sterne
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I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were…
— Ruth Simmons
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
— Henry David Thoreau
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To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to…
— William Booth
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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept…
— Charles Dickens
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Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction.…
— Johanna Lindsey
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Papa's in a bad way, Locke. I wanted to see you before you saw him - he has some...things he…
— Scott Lynch
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