Fainting Quote by John Green Download Open image “I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.” — John Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fainting Wise
“She supposed a properly bred London lady would be expected to faint in shock at the sight of a shirtless gentleman, but he looked… — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down. — Britt Ekland Copy Share Image
Fanny and Alexander' blew me away. I was visiting my sister in her first year at university. It was my first foray into something… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I… — Marc Almond Copy Share
The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
“Personal faintness, and an overpowering personal candour, were the distinguishing features of Mrs Billickin’s organization. She came languishing out from her own exclusive back… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I was on holiday in Somerset with my daughter, just sitting watching the telly or something, when: BANG! One minute I was fine, the… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
A girl fainted in front of me the other day. Obviously you don't get to see things like that unless you are The Beatles… — Zayn Malik Copy Share Image
“Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--but merely that they were "retiring." It became effectively impossible to discuss clothing in even a clinical sense without resort… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised. — Rue McClanahan Copy Share Image
I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps… — Adolph Green Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska — John Green Copy Share
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song, "Holland, 1945," and then onto Lake Shore Drive, the waves of Lake Michigan crashing against the boulders by the Drive, the windows cracked to get the car to defrost, the dirty, bracing, cold air rushing in,… — John Green Copy Share
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I… — John Green Copy Share
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someone’s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty… — J.R. Miller Copy Share
If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
“There was a very slight lilt to it, too, attesting to a childhood spent far from Lincolnshire, and Grace felt herself sway, as if… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
All through first and second and third hour, Eleanor rubbed her palm. Nothing happened. How could it be possible that there were that many never ending all in one place? And were they always there, or did they just flip on wherever they felt like it? Because, if they were always there, how did she manage to turn doorknobs without… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one. — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting — and whether or… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
