Life and living Quote by Salley Vickers

“Agnes did the talking, and said it was a sudden fever, and for a woman as pious as she was, lied very well;”

— Margaret Atwood

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

— Neil Gaiman

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

— Moliere

“Agnes felt that beauty was even more likely to be in the eye of the beholder if the feet of the beholder were on…

— Terry Pratchett

“Agnes Shay had the true spirit of a maid. Moistened with dishwater and mild eau de cologne, reared in narrow and sunless bedrooms, in…

— John Cheever

“this, I believe, is when the holy relics at St Denis are usually taken down and exposed, bu all right-minded people, against fiends, bogles…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Paulette shook her head and sighed. In her world Grace had failed to meet the responsibility of her own beauty. This was not just…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a…

— Jude Morgan

“By undue profundity, we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny…

— Edgar Allen Poe

“UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL Paul tells where the”

— Paul Kent

For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone,' like everybody else. But he was too…

— Gaston Leroux