Juliet Chase > Juliet's Quotes

“A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes”
― Gibran Kahlil Gibran

“We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting”
― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“Stoplights and love can be cruel”
― Sesame Street

“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul, and may the outward and the inner man be at one.”
― Socrates

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers

“A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy ”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

“Imagination is the one weapon against reality.”
― Jules de Gaultier

“It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“A tall, dark, cold eyed, warm lipped, firm chinned, young man of thirty”
― C.N. Williamson

“When evening comes, I return to my home, and I go into my study; and on the thresh-hold, I take off my everyday clothes, which are covered in mud and mire,and I put on regal and curial robes; and dressed in a more appropriate manner I enter into the ancient courts of ancient men and am welcomed by them kindly, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born; and there I am not ashamed to speak to them, to ask them the reasons for their actions; and they, in their humanity, answer me; and for four hours I feel no boredom,I dismiss every affliction, I no longer fear poverty nor do I tremble at the thought of death; I become completely part of them.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Letters of Machiavelli : A Selection