Quote by Sara Poole

“Giulia clasped her hands together just below her bosom, blinked moistly, and flung herself at Borgia's feet. 'My lord! My darling! How could I…

— Sara Poole

“If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection…

— Oswald Chambers

“Spirit!” he cried, tight clutching at its robe, “hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I…

— Charles Dickens

“She could not handle telling people I had left priesthood, that I was gay, and she refused to use words associated with my sexuality.…

— Charles Benedict

“Pride overcame Paul's fear. "You dare suggest a duke's son is an animal?" he demanded. "Let us say I suggest you may be human,"…

— Frank Herbert

“Like many another member of the gentle sex, she seems to have been ready enough to accept the perquisites of her position, but saw…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“also reflected on His Holiness’s advice about how to deal with problems in life. They are never asked for, but how we deal with…

— David Michie

“(Don’t confuse this with not being chaste; they would not have encouraged fornication.)”

— Charles Benedict

“Stop, Morgian. Your wiles cannot avail you now.’ He turned to the High King and said, ‘The hurt this woman has done me, I…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend less on…

— Gary Shteyngart

The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel…

— William Hazlitt

“Holiness is not a biblical affair, holiness is a human affair.”

— Abhijit Naskar