Historical fiction Quote by Rick Riordan

“Hunter’s already low spirits plummeted. It was a sad state of affairs when an untried boy had more luck with women than a grown…

— Catherine Anderson

“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime…

— George Washington Carver

“Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the…

— Oscar Wilde

“Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has…

— Anonymous

Now that adolescence is accessible to the multitude and not restricted to gentlemen and lords, many adults are taking alarm at what seems to…

— Anonymous

“three major traps that plague many givers, male and female, in their dealings with other people: being too trusting, too empathetic, and too timid.”

— Adam M. Grant

“Be game--take a chance--don't hide behind veils and veils of discretion... Go forward with what you have to say, expressing things as you see…

— Robert Henri

“There is no young creature, my Lord, who so greatly wants, or so earnestly wishes for, the advice and assistance of her friends, as…

— Fanny Burney

“My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may…

— Voltaire

“You wait 'til you're my age, and wake every morning to gaze on the vast tract of uncreased linen that is the other side…

— Sarah Waters

“A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust; Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasure A life, in recollection, truly possessed.”

— Robert Wells

“You must also remember the yellow-hair may give you many more children than a Comanche woman. Take care or you could father more children…

— Catherine Anderson