Book Quote by Julia Quinn Download Open image “Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.” — Julia Quinn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Hens Trying
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
“To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of… — William James Copy Share Image
“The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“I have never before gathered eggs from under a hen. Fernando has never before seen a hen. We bend low into the shed where perch a dozen or so fat lady birds. There's no shrieking or fluttering at all. I approach one and ask if she has an egg or two. Nothing. I ask in Italian. Still nothing. I ask… — Marlena de Blasi Copy Share
“...she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print,… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
“I never worry about how many legs my chicken has, about whether it can fly or not, about which cock was her husband; that… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
“what a sad pair we are," she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.” — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, " I think it's… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Daphne," he said with controlled gentleness, "what is wrong?" She sat down opposite him and placed a hand on his cheek. "I'm so insensitive,"… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
You are always looking at people like this.” And then she made a face, one he couldn’t possibly begin to describe. “If I ever… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Charlotte had tried to read his work. It seemed only polite, after all, given that they were neighbors. But after a while, she'd simply… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Yes?" "When you said you weren't angry..." "Yes?" "Were you?" "I was rather annoyed," he admitted. "But not angry?" She sounded as if she… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Daniel held himself very still, waiting for the wave of jealousy that never came. He was furious with the man who’d taken advantage of… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“ "What do you say, Miss Lyndon? Shall we have a go at it?" " 'Shall we have a go at it?' " Ellie… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Just curious,she mouthed. "What? I didn't catch that." Jjuussttccuurriioouuss.She drew it out this time, hoping he'd be able to read her lips. "If you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“It was nearly impossible to keep anything a secret, especially from her sisters, the youngest of whom—Hyacinth—could probably have won the war against Napoleon… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Something important is always about to happen... And if not, you'd do well to act as if it were. You'll enjoy life better that… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
