"When a woman teams up with a snake……" — Stacy Schiff
"When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere."
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31 Quotes by Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff has 31 quotes on this site.
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It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce…
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No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I…
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Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
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A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit…
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I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started…
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We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There…
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An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book…
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Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in…
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I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library…
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My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So…
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For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last…
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Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are…
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More Moral Quotes
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the…
— Aristotle
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
— Isaac Asimov
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
— Kate Atkinson
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It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
— David Attenborough
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Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
— Michele Bachmann
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
— Francis Bacon
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
— Lord Acton
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Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together…
— Russell Baker
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
— Honore de Balzac
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