Contrary Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She heard a chirp and a twitter, and when she looked at the bare flower-bed at her left side there he was hopping about…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells, And marigolds all in a row.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told…

— Andy Serkis

There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.

— Heather King

“It would be a mistake to suppose that all Urnings must be woman-haters. Quite the contrary. They are not seldom the faithfulest friends, the…

— Otto de Joux

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Listen to th' wind wutherin' round the house," she said. "You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

— Gerald Abrahams

The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love…

— Stendhal

“But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice,…

— Benjamin Franklin

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.…

— Merlin Stone