I Quotes
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“If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.”
“If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.”
“If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.”
“If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.”
Source: Benchley beside himself
“If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.”
“If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each is vying with the others for dominance, but in the end, in tragedy, most of these voices will die, to be replaced by the yet more vigorous voice of a younger generation.”
“If Shame doesn’t suit to be my dream world so why and how you allowed it to be yours?”
“If shame had a face I think it
would kind of look like mine
If it had a home would it be my eyes
Would you believe me if I said I'm tired of this
Well here we go now one more time
I tried to climb your steps
I tried to chase you down
I tried to see how low I could get it down to the ground
I tried to earn my way
I tried to tame this mind
You better believe that I tried to beat this
[CHORUS]
So when will this end it goes on and on
Over and over and over again
Keep spinning around I know that it won't stop
Till I step down from this for good
I never thought I'd end up here
Never thought I'd be standing where I am
I guess I kinda thought it would be easier than this
I guess I was wrong now one more time
I tried to climb your steps
I tried to chase you down
I tried to see how long I could get it down to the ground
I tried to earn my way
I tried to tame this mind
You better believe that I tried yo beat this
[REPEAT CHORUS]
Sick cycle carousel
This is a sick sycle, yeah
Sick cycle carousel
This is a sick cycle, yeah
[REPEAT CHORUS TWICE]
Sick cycle carousel
Sick cycle carousel
Sick cycle carousel...”
“If Shane had avoided her for years because of a kiss, he might leave the country over a blow and hand job.”
Source: Witness to Passion
“If Shane Warne were to become England spin bowling coach I think it would be fantastic for myself and all those learning to bowl spin in England.”
“If sharing meant receiving, well and good, but if it was a question of giving, then to hell with it, the Clochemerlins would cry out in chorus. Sad to relate, these bumpkins knew nothing about Hegel or Marx. They each had their little patch of ground inherited from previous generations, their trade secrets handed down from father to son, and they could see no farther.”
Source: Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]
“If sharks could smile, they'd smile like he was now.”
Source: Hemlock
“If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.”
“If shaytan has entered into your heart - evil will look beautiful to you and good will seem tiring and exhausting.”
Source: Tafsir Juz Amma: A collection of transcribed notes from the Tafsir lecture series by Sh. Nouman Ali Khan
“If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds”
“If she [Hillary Clinton] had not stood by the guy at any point, that might have meant the end of his [Bill Clinton's] career.”
“If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.”
“If she actually had friends, maybe she wouldn't have turned out so nasty and evil.”
Source: Once Upon a Dream
“If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.”
Source: On The Jellicoe Road
“If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,
The one's for use, the other useth it.”
Source: Othello: Third Series
“If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“If she can bite a vulture, she can jump a crack.
~Victor Frankenstein”
Source: This Dark Endeavor
“If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.”
Source: Ramona's world
“If she captured Tamlin’s power once, who’s to say she can’t do it again?” It was the question I hadn’t yet dared voice.
“He won’t be tricked again so easily,” he said, staring up at the ceiling. “Her biggest weapon is that she keeps our powers contained. But she can’t access them, not wholly—though she can control us through them. It’s why I’ve never been able to shatter her mind—why she’s not dead already. The moment you break Amarantha’s curse, Tamlin’s wrath will be so great that no force in the world will keep him from splattering her on the walls.”
A chill went through me.
“Why do you think I’m doing this?” He waved a hand to me.
“Because you’re a monster.”
He laughed. “True, but I’m also a pragmatist. Working Tamlin into a senseless fury is the best weapon we have against her. Seeing you enter into a fool’s bargain with Amarantha was one thing, but when Tamlin saw my tattoo on your arm … Oh, you should have been born with my abilities, if only to have felt the rage that seeped from him.”
I didn’t want to think much about his abilities. “Who’s to say he won’t splatter you as well?”
“Perhaps he’ll try—but I have a feeling he’ll kill Amarantha first. That’s what it all boils down to, anyway: even your servitude to me can be blamed on her. So he’ll kill her tomorrow, and I’ll be free before he can start a fight with me that will reduce our once-sacred mountain to rubble.” He picked at his nails. “And I have a few other cards to play.”
I lifted my brows in silent question.
“Feyre, for Cauldron’s sake. I drug you, but you don’t wonder why I never touch you beyond your waist or arms?”
Until tonight—until that damned kiss. I gritted my teeth, but even as my anger rose, a picture cleared.
“It’s the only claim I have to innocence,” he said, “the only thing that will make Tamlin think twice before entering into a battle with me that would cause a catastrophic loss of innocent life. It’s the only way I can convince him I was on your side. Believe me, I would have liked nothing more than to enjoy you—but there are bigger things at stake than taking a human woman to my bed.”
I knew, but I still asked, “Like what?”
“Like my territory,” he said, and his eyes held a far-off look that I hadn’t yet seen. “Like my remaining people, enslaved to a tyrant queen who can end their lives with a single word. Surely Tamlin expressed similar sentiments to you.” He hadn’t—not entirely. He hadn’t been able to, thanks to the curse.
“Why did Amarantha target you?” I dared ask. “Why make you her whore?”
“Beyond the obvious?” He gestured to his perfect face. When I didn’t smile, he loosed a breath. “My father killed Tamlin’s father—and his brothers.”
I started. Tamlin had never said—never told me the Night Court was responsible for that.
“It’s a long story, and I don’t feel like getting into it, but let’s just say that when she stole our lands out from under us, Amarantha decided that she especially wanted to punish the son of her friend’s murderer—decided that she hated me enough for my father’s deeds that I was to suffer.”
I might have reached a hand toward him, might have offered my apologies—but every thought had dried up in my head. What Amarantha had done to him …
“So,” he said wearily, “here we are, with the fate of our immortal world in the hands of an illiterate human.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“If she caused him pain, she was sorry for it as she would be for any man whose proposal she was obliged to refuse. But even at a moment when most men would have shown tenderness and vulnerability, he had still been as proud, arrogant and conceited as ever. He still showed a selfish disdain for the feelings of other people.”
Source: A Compromise At Rosings Park: A Pride And Prejudice Variation
“If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.”
Source: The Color Purple
“If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.”
Source: El color púrpura
“If she could bring nothing else to this club full of the jaded and the flirting, she would bring a sense of love, of honest, giving affection. Love for Judith. Love for Kevin. The love of one Gaedil for another.”
Source: Gossamer Axe
“If she could explore and heal his injuries with her fingers, it would be another type of magic, her skin making contact with his. Putting her mind to it, Love would become familiar with his body. She would know him from top to bottom, from beginning to end.
Touching this boy would be the death, and life, of her.”
Source: Touch
“If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.”
Source: The Ruins of Ambrai
“If she could get into the one here at The Texas Player’s Club, she’d drag Trace Corbin out by his ass, stick her arm up it, and do his entire set ventriloquist style if she had do.”
Source: Girl with Guitar
“If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
“If she could hate this much she sure as hell had loved.”
Source: Papa Was A Gypsy
“If she could have anything in the world, he'd asked her, what would it be?
She'd answered that one without hesitation: a best friend. She hastily added, a truly, seriously best friend; one that I couldn't wait to talk to first thing in the morning as soon as I woke up, and one that I still wanted to be talking to, right up to the last minute before I went to sleep.
He'd smiled faintly. You mean a soul mate, he'd thought but not said.”
Source: Spell of the Highlander
“If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.”
“If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!”
“If she could keep them in line long enough, continue to smile and flatter and exchange pleasantries for another few circuits around the ship, they would follow her into Hell itself. That was a good thing. With the way this night was unfolding, Hell itself wasn't far away.”
Source: Into the Drowning Deep
“If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss.”
Source: Anthropology of an American Girl
“If she could take my strength. He put his hand on his chest, feeling his heartbeat. If she could have some of my heart's strength. I'd give years of my life, Lord, if she could use them." He looked at her peaceful face, again looking at her beating pulse. Life seemed so fragile to him. She had become, in such a short time, infinitely precious to him. "A daughter of God. Your daughter, Lord. My wife.”
Source: Marriage by Mail
“If she couldn’t go looking for a home, she would stay and make one.”
“If she couldn't look like an attractive woman, she could look like a lady”
Source: Foreign Affairs
“If she cries, I want to wear pants for a week," I offered. "Done," Maxon said. "And if she doesn't, you owe me a walk around the grounds tomorrow afternoon." "You drive a hard bargain, sir, but I accept.”
Source: The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir
“If she’d ever had any doubts that she loved him, really loved him, she knew now. It was easy to love somebody when love was happy, but when it was hard, when it meant facing things you feared...that was different. He’d done it for her, many times. And now she had to do it for him.”
“If she'd ever hoped to impress Amon Byrne with her newly acquired glamour and beauty, that chance was gone forever. He'd seen her in every kind of ugly.”
Source: The Exiled Queen
“If she’d had any doubts he was a real deal country boy, they disappeared when he unabashedly stripped down to nothing—the sun had kissed his arms to mid-bicep, although his torso wasn’t without a faint tan. She’d thought lazily that maybe he had a pond. She’d like to go skinny dipping with him. Leap onto his back and wrap her legs around his lean hips. Hold on to his broad shoulders and press her naked breasts into his back and drift into the cool water together.
As he opened his button-fly jeans, revealing snug briefs underneath, she’d whispered for him to stop. He was hard and sinewy in all the right places, with shadows and valleys she wanted to explore with her mouth and hands and eyes, but her touch first went to the line where dark faded to light on his arm, neatly following the curve of his muscles. “Nice farmer’s tan.”
Source: Between Then and Now
“If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...”
Source: What the Lady Wants
“If she'd realised the last time she was hugged was significant she would have paid more attention, committed it to memory so she could recall the sensations at will for the many times since, when all she had needed had been for someone to hold her.”
Source: The Library
“If she’d thought the oncoming storm outside was crazy, it was nothing compared to what happened between her and Finn every time they so much as looked at each other.”
“If she did bitch-slap me, I'd bitch-slap her right back, but I resented the word bitch and all its familiar forms, as it was degrading to women and dogs everywhere.”
Source: Vegan Teenage Zombie Huntress