Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

William Shakespeare

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

William Shakespeare

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

Elizabeth I

I will have but one mistress and no master

William Shakespeare

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

Edith Wharton

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.

Ben Jonson

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

Ben Jonson

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

Brian Johnson

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Diane Abbott

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

H. Hunt

I'd like to see them do more of this so we don't have to go to Cocoa Village all the time.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

Adolph Green

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

Daniel Defoe

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Jim Butcher

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

Patrick McGoohan

We all live in a little Village,

Chinua Achebe

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

Diana Gabaldon

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

Anthea Turner

Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

Brian Blair

is not going to be a witch hunt; it's a fact-finding mission.

Kim Harrison

Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

Michael Cunningham

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

Terry Pratchett

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

J. K. Rowling

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

Christine O'Donnell

I am not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you.