L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.”
Source: Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls by R. Baughan. Book 1, containing the tragedies and historical plays
“Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy.”
“Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Lady," she whimpered softly, wondering if she would meet her wolf again when she was dead.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“Ladybird Heart by Stewart Stafford
O darling o' my heart,
If 'tis true that is what thou art,
Then recognise and see me.
Didst I not win thy heart so bold,
And giveth thee rings of gold?
Anon, honour our precious union.
But to interfering teams,
Thy loyalty now it seems,
Thee grants these canker blossoms o'er me.
Recall how they hath tried,
To jilt me from mine own bride,
And keepest thou lonesome and melancholy.
So, returneth, my dove,
To this, thy bed of love,
And sleep soundly beneath thy lovebird's wing.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.”
“Laethrig is my father's first son, and Sulian is already knotted in a girl's long hair, while I- I am free, and have an itch to the soles of my feet that I shall not find easement for, here in my father's hall."
I looked at him in the clear upland light, the set of his head that matched that of the hawk on his fist, the hot red-brown eyes under the black brows; and I thought that he might be well right in that, and thought also that it would be good to have this frowning youngster among my captains.
"I can maybe find the means for easing the soles to your feet," I said. "And if there is a like itching in the palm of your sword hand, I can find you a fine way to appease that also.”
Source: Sword at Sunset
“Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.”
“Lafayette took umbrage - just gobs and gobs of umbrage - at the patriots' vilification of his countrymen for leaving Newport.”
Source: Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
“LaForche for his standing, understood Christina’s seditious intents, and for that, he monitored and hated the rude Vixen of Woe. Innumerable times they had quarresquabbled, sometimes very loudly, both during and after class. Christina’s wit, as fast as her blade, for the most part won the scathingly bitter, single-edged dialogues, much to the chagrin and embarrassment of LaForche. It was no big secret that trying to deal with his Anti-Mr. Spock logic was like trying to cross a baking salt-flat desert mid-summer with nothing to drink or eat except stale crackers and a big jar of out-dated defunct Peter Pan peanut butter, its original “crunch” now being only pasty sand mouth goo. She often asked herself how could you argue against no mind. It was an unassuming study in stupility to say the least.
—Christina Brickley, The Lady and the Samurai”
“LaForche's never-was has-never been emaciated spirit was now as it had always been, hole’ up by vapidity and things intangible. Yet it looked so common and ordinary, blenting into the masses using the trogs as a mask to hide itself (later Christina recalled Thomas saying that the sleuth Man said there was nothing unnatural like the common, and the detective was right. “The Fork” was a four-star pronged pointless entity, a spirit without form or life, except now it was evident, his external body displaying to all the leftovers of his empty writhing, splastic visage. Short of sheet and simply put, the girl had out-foiled him—.
With the wolves of humiliation tearing the meat right off of his soul, he continued in his loner power mongering ways. Once formidable, they now reeked of rancid mal-diminishment. This is all he had left–and knew it, an armload of empty conquests, but the prize, the one he had desired and wanted so much, had eluded his hounding dogmatic futile, empty and sterile grasp. The power of powerlessness tonned his shoulders, gashing him and his god of pride apart. He shot a quick glarance toward the wall phone thinking of “The Bix,” Kerta’s # 1 Ace problem solving “mechanic.”
--OnFelipe LaForche , Villain
The lady and the Samurai”
“Lafz-e-haseen se bhi haseen hain woh
Ab lafz-e-haseen adab se pukaare koi”
Source: Her name is moon
“Lagi pula hadiah apa yang pantas untuk seseorang yang sepertinya sudah punya segalanya.”
Source: Gus
“Lagi pula, setiap manusia ditakdirkan untuk saling menyakiti. Betapa beruntungnya mereka yang tidak terlahir. Bahagia dalam ketiadaan.”
Source: Elipsis
“Lagi pula tak ada satu pun kota di Eropa yang bisa memberi potret sahih tentang kota Batavia. Penduduk kota Paris, yang terbiasa dengan jalanan berbau dan teramat kotor, juga plaster temboknya yang buruk, tak akan pernah mengerti tentang kemewahan dan keanggunan rumah-rumah di Jawa, demikian pula di kalkuta, yang saban tahun dikuas dengan lumuran baru dari batu gamping. Lapisan ini memberi kesan selaksa perak mewah, dan garis-garis tata bangunan teramat jelas tergambar rapi. Di kota ini, ada banyak rumah yang dengan mudah melampaui kemegahan istana di Eropa.”
Source: Voyage de Paris à Java / Un drame au bord de la mer
“lagipula, anak pintar emang biasanya pelit. soalnya mereka berusaha keras buat belajar. lha, kita malah mainan gundu hahaha.”
Source: Muara Rasa
“Lagipula, apa benar cowok itu tidak boleh nangis? Bolehnya apa? Marah saja? Bukankah marah itu tanda orang tidak bisa menguasai diri sendiri?”
Source: Dua Garis Biru
“Lagos has also had a particular effect on my career. I was there early, and although it was a courageous step to go there and invest on this scale - I went there maybe 20 times - it's also been also super-controversial. There's an old school of thought that somebody like me has no place to go there.Because of colonialism and so on.”
“Lagos is filled with broke men with big dreams.”
Source: Black Sunday
“Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.”
“Lagos was built from blood and sweat, and raw ambition. Abuja was designed as a playground for the rich.”
Source: Blackass
“Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.”
“Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.”
“Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: 'Il faut que j'y songe encore', and put the paper in his pocket.' [I must think about it again]”
“Lagrimas ocultas
Lagrimas ocultas
Se me ponho a cismar em outras eras
Em que ri e cantei, em que era q'rida,
Parece-me que foi noutras esferas,
Parece-me que foi numa outra vida...
E a minha triste boca dolorida
Que dantes tinha o rir das Primaveras,
Esbate as linhas graves e severas
E cai num abandono de esquecida!
E fico, pensativa, olhando o vago...
Toma a brandura plácida dum lago
O meu rosto de monja de marfim...
E as lágrimas que choro, branca e calma,
Ninguém as vê brotar dentro da alma!
Ninguém as vê cair dentro de mim!”
Source: Livro de Mágoas
“Lagu-lagu yang ada dalam iPod seseorang itu mengungkapkan banyak hal tentang seseorang; hal-hal yang dia pikirkan, apa yang membuatnya sedih, dan apa yang membuatnya bahagia. Benda itu diisi dengan lagu-lagu yang mewakili perasaan-perasaan itu dalam hidupnya. It’s their soundtrack, the story of their lives.”
Source: Melbourne: Rewind
“Lagu "N.O" meneriakkan pesan untuk generasi muda supaya bangkit untuk diri mereka sendiri. Harapannya, mereka lebih memahami mimpi mereka sendiri karena ini adalah hidup mereka. Maka, sejatinya mereka hidup untuk meraih mimpi mereka, bukan mimpi orang tua.”
Source: BTS X ARMY In the Love Maze
“Lahaina has a history of wildfires damaging properties.”
“Lahaina was lost to a wildfire on 8th August 2023.”
“Lahat ng bagay, maski mahirap, natatanggap. Pinoproseso lang.”
Source: Si Amapola sa 65 na Kabanata
“Lahat ng mga salitang yan may dating sa'yo. Sabi kasi ng isip mo.”
Source: Stainless Longganisa
“Lahat ng pagsisikap mo ay hindi lang mapupunta sa wala, Magtiwala ka lang sa proseso at kakayahan mo, dahil yun ang hakbang patungo sa gusto mong marating.”
“Lahat ng uri ng depresyon ay may pinagmulan.
Despite popularity, fame, and money — those things never gave her peace of mind.
It was never about what she had, but about how she was wired —differently, uniquely, and sometimes painfully.
She was clinically depressed; she functioned in ways the world couldn’t always understand.”
Source: Smile at the Monster: Turn Stress, Anxiety, and Self-Doubt into Motivation, Focus, and Daily Success
“Lahat tayo ay gustong umasenso at gumanda ang buhay pero iwasan natin manghila pababa para lang umangat, Laging tandaan na mas masarap sa pakiramdam kung wala kang tinatapakan na ibang tao, respeto sa kapwa ang lagi mong baunin tiyak na mas aasenso ka pa patungo sa gusto mong marating.”
“Lahir di desa adalah anugerah yang tidak bisa ditukar dengan materi.”
Source: Surat Hujan
“Lahko rečem, da se trudim imeti kolikor toliko tekoč pregled nad družbenimi obveznostmi in pravicami, le odkar se zavedam jasno pojma o enakopravnosti med spoloma, sem v praksi nenehno v zadregi. Tako zaenkrat rešujem svoj »ženski problem« z genetično kondicijo in čarovniškimi metodami. Namreč zelo zanimiva je miselnost nas žensk samih. Ko sem nekoč nekaj malega razmišljala v spisu, ki je govoril o ženi, družini in otrocih ter vzgoji, in vse to skupaj objavila v reviji Otrok in družina, sem dobila tako neuporaben odgovor od tov. Beltramove, ki je v kratkem povzetku bil v tem: da naj bom srečna, ker imamo raztegljive nogavice, pralne stroje, električni štedilnik in politične pravice, ki jih ni imela nobena od mojih babic.
Vrniva se nazaj k delu, ki me obvezuje, in k času, ki ga merimo s 24 urami. V tem času je čas, ki ga in kadar ga uporabim za ustvarjalno delo, vedno zamejen na ure, ko moji otroci zaspijo ali pa še spijo. Oba sta kratka še za tole pismo.
(Pismo objavljeno v knjigi Med tradicijo in modernizmom: pričevanja o slovenski poeziji Franceta Pibernika, Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, 1978)”
Source: Obhod v času
“Lahore is a delicious city. A mottled mess of vanishing history and new regimes. Lahore becomes ominous when you are in Morgantown. Lahore becomes a quiet mirage, an odd spectacle hung in time that only moves how you want it to move. It only moves when you want it to move. It does not speak to you or wail for you, yet you write only about Lahore. You preserve it in your poetry. You suppress it in a verse. You capture it in the refrain of a poem: its beating heart, its howls and cries, its chuckle. Yes, Lahore chuckles. The colonial drawing room in your mother’s house. The pale light that slithered through the bedroom curtains. The moth your father captured in his palm when you were a child. And then he kissed the brown wings to show you that the moth was a friend. The goodness of the gardener who gave you jasmine flowers every evening. The ceramic bowl with painted tulips where you placed the flowers. The horrid monsoon rains that killed the houseboy. How long can a stanza sustain the scuffling of a city?”
Source: What Remains After a Fire: Stories
“Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British.”
Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“Laia and Helene: They’re so different. I like that Laia says things I don’t expect, that she speaks almost formally, as if she’s telling a story. I like that she defied my mother to go to the Moon Festival, whereas Helene always obeys the Commandant. Laia is the wild dance of a Tribal campfire, while Helene is the cold blue of an alchemist’s flame.
But why am I even comparing them? I’ve know Laia a few days and Helene all my life. Helene’s no passing attraction. She’s family. More than that. She’s part of me.”
Source: An Ember in the Ashes
“Laid out before him were dishes detailed in gold inscription: Tourte de Faisan aux Truffes, Blanquette de Veau, Barbue aux Huîtres, Tripes à la mode de Caen. Simon explained the preparation of each dish so lovingly that it would have suited Zod to not eat at all and simply listen to this man as he translated the truffled pheasant in pastry, the creamy veal stew with pearl onions and mushrooms, the poached brill with oysters in brown butter, the baked tripe with calvados, and the wine they must order to accompany it,”
Source: The Last Days of Café Leila
“Laid out on the rustic farm table that sits to the side of Maria's enormous kitchen island is a lovely spread of fresh-looking salads. Wheat-berry salad, what looks like a Greek salad, asparagus, a platter of beautifully arranged fruit, and some cooked tuna steaks. "This looks amazing!" I've been mired in fall comfort foods for work, all braised and hearty, and it is very exciting to see such fresh and light fare for a change.”
Source: Off the Menu
“Laikam jau katrā tautā ir gan cilvēki, gan necilvēki, gan arī pārcilvēki.”
“Laikas - tai silpnutis mirties ekstraktas, kuris iš lėto skverbiasi į mus kaip nestiprus narkotikas. Iš pradžių jis gaivina, ir mes net pradedame tikėti, kad esame nemirtingi, bet lašas po lašo, diena po dienos jis tampa vienu lašu, viena diena stipresnis ir pavirsta rūgštimi, drumsčiančia ir nuodijančia mūsų kraują.”
Source: The Night in Lisbon
“Laiki nav svarīgi. Svarīgs ir cilvēks.”
“Laiklik yani dini reddetmek değil, laiklik yani köktenciliği reddetmek.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Laiklik yani dini terk etmek değil, laiklik yani, köktenciliğe karşı aşılamak.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Laiklik yani dini terk etmek değil,
Laiklik yani, köktenciliğe karşı aşılamak.
Kör inanca kafa gömmek kutsallık değil,
İlahiyat yani inancın ötesinde insana sarılmak.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Laila could picture the flow of traffic all around her. From above, she watched the cars move along in streams like all those ants on her kitchen floor. What had they been looking for anyway? A crumb here, a speck of sugar there? The vast stockpiles of food in the pantry and fridge remained untouched. For that matter, what kept all these cars returning to the city day after day? A little money, a little entertainment? Surface operations like Livetrac kept the ants fighting over crumbs while the obscene fortunes of a shadowy elite were counted not in dollars but in lives.”
Source: Dreck
“Laila had seen enough killing of innocents caught in the crossfire of enemies.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns