Ambivalence Quote by R.C. Robertson-Glasgow

“Even after all these years, the thought of Isagol the Terrible stirred such a storm in him- of rancor and longing, desire and disgust,…

— Laini Taylor

“O where does he stalk like a horse in pastures very far afield? I cannot hear him, and silence writes more terrible things than…

— Elizabeth Smart

“to all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you are in…

— Victor Hugo

“The authors (Habsburg military personnel) invariably show some surprise when recounting a respectable performance of a regiment during its Italian period and are forced…

— Lawrence Sondhaus

“Maximus was cleaning his blade on the dead man’s wolfskin. ‘You promised him his life,’ the Greek said. ‘No, I said death was his…

— Harry Sidebottom

“But cricket was no mere game. Cricket was important. [S]he could never help reading about cricket. [S]he read the scores in the stop press…

— Virginia Woolf

“Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ever forget that.”

— Ken Doyle

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengence need not be feared" Nicolo Machiavelli…

— Jennifer Loren

“But surely everyone can also testify to another, less reckonable kind of homesickness, one having to do with unsettlements that cannot be located in…

— Joseph O'Neill

“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with…

— Victor Hugo

“The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the…

— Jeffery Farnol

“Class amusements, be they for Dukes or plow-boys, always become nuisances and curses to a country. The true charm of cricket and hunting is…

— Thomas Hughes