Jackie Weger > Jackie's Quotes

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
― Edith Sitwell

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
― Elizabeth Peters

“In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Deeds of the Disturber

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Less than an hour ago, you were a big furry dog. I’ve dated worse.”
― Christy Gissendaner, One Hot Knight

“Morality is not the purpose of life; life is the purpose of morality.”
― Warren Fahy

“Darkness exists by default. Light has to be generated.”
― Bob Rector, Unthinkable Consequences

“The biggest advantage anyone can give you is to underestimate you.”
― Bob Rector, Unthinkable Consequences

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“People don’t often mention God these days. God has become a taboo subject that you only refer to when heartache takes over your life. The rest of the time the idea of God lies dormant in people’s minds, like a pack of medication in a dark drawer.”
― Effrosyni Moschoudi, The Necklace of Goddess Athena

“There were nights for instance, especially in August, where the view of the full moon from the top of the Acropolis hill or from a high terrace could steal your breath away. The moon would slide over the clouds like a seducing princess dressed in her finest silvery silk. And the sky would be full of stars that trembled feebly, like servants that bowed before her. During those nights under the light of the August full moon, the city of Athens would become an enchanted kingdom that slept lazily under the sweet light of its ethereal mistress.”
― Effrosyni Moschoudi, The Necklace of Goddess Athena