Francis-of-assisi Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“The Fawleys were not made for wedlock: it never seemed to sit well upon us. There's sommat in our blood that won't take kindly…

— Thomas Hardy

“In short, I always vowed, one way or another, not to change. Not me. I needed the fierceness of vowing because I could scarcely…

— Annie Dillard

“Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.”

— Euripides

“It would be restful to serve, if only as a slave, people who saw clearly, coldly, straight, not obliquely and with hypocrisy only, such…

— Ford Madox Ford

“Even a slave may rise from the dust, and whet his gaze into a knife, and tell his master, "You will never own me.”

— Greg Keyes

“Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.”

— Margarita Engle

“If one truly believes in freedom, how can one welcome the notion of slavery from either traditional masters or temperance-wielding masters disguised as servants?”

— Joshua Emmet

“There have always been men who found it easier to speak vows than to keep them.”

— George R.R. Martin

“No slave had ever keeled over dead at a spinning wheel or been butchered for a tangle. But nobody wanted to speak on the…

— Colson Whitehead

“Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a…

— Epictetus Epictetus

“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.”

— Marcel Proust

“a woman whom the course of years had turned sour and to whom the vows meant poverty of spirit, chastity of humour, and obedience…

— Donna Leon