Havisham Quotes

“Life is an enigma. We have to approach it not scientifically but poetically.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“Dancing takes a certain lightness, a spring in the step, an elasticity in the calves; a kind of joie de vivre, or alternatively a leavening element of self-proclaiming stupidity in one’s make-up.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“Life is an enigma. We have to approach it not 'just' scientifically, but poetically. ”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“The purple haze of the wych elms; the blue flash of a kingfisher’s wings; the statuesque rightness of the milch cows in that green place chomping on the rich flood-grass.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“A woman can only satisfy and fulfil herself, I understood, when she establishes her own authority, and see beyond equality, realising how terrible and damaging her own power - if unleashed - might be.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“Life is an enigma. We have to approach it not scientifically, but poetically.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“Life is an enigma. We have to approach it not scientifically but poetically.” ”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“Don’t we have to live a little first? And read later?”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“I’m not just a face, or a body. I’m a Havisham.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“Why d’you think she did it?”
I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know.
“A broken heart,” I suggested.
“Do people suffer so much?”
“For love? Oh, I imagine so.”
“To drown herself?”
“Why does that astonish you? Dido threw herself on the flames.”
“In legend.”
“And real life’s different?” I asked.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“That’s what friends are for,” Sheba said.
“I don’t know what they’re for,” I told her.
“So that we don’t get out of our depth,” Mouse said.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“You care for empresses and queens?” I asked him.
“No. For tragic heroines.”
“Why them?”
“Suffering and courageous women who deserve their own immortality.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham

“Some things belong to the past.”
― Ronald Frame, Havisham