"If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace,……" — Jacqueline Carey
"If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it."
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Jacqueline Carey
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88 Quotes by Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline Carey has 88 quotes on this site.
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There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians…
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The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.
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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to…
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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque…
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All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
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It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.
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I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was…
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Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
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That which yields is not always weak.
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For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant…
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More Courtesan Quotes
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
— Pietro Aretino
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The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are…
— Pietro Aretino
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I'll live as a courtesan, not as a woman. I'll embrace any man that comes my way. It's not hard…
— Unknown Author
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It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.
— Mary Renault
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It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to…
— Julian Barnes
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The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has…
— Honore de Balzac
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You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of…
— Anne Stuart
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How is it that one woman is…enough…for three men?” “I don’t know.” “She must be a very talented courtesan.” “Callie.”…
— Sarah MacLean
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Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.
— John Kennedy Toole
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Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the…
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
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