L Quotes
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“Lor,” he whispers. His voice is soft, but there’s something as jagged as torn iron buried in that single syllable. He said my name. My actual name and I’ve never loved the sound of it more than I do at this moment. That simple, nothing name that was given to me to keep me as anonymous and unremarkable as possible. Somehow, he makes it sound like it’s a name forged in fire and created for a queen.”
Source: Rule of the Aurora King
“Lorca’s Spain: A Homage”
Beginning with olive trees.
Shadows.
Beginning with roosters.
Crystal.
Beginning with castanets & almonds.
Fishes.
This is a homage to Spain.
This mists dogs.
This silences rubber.
This is Saturn.
Beginning with yellow.
Eclipse.
Beginning with needles.
Insomnia.
Beginning with baskets.
The Moon.
Who is naked? The imagination
(wrote Lorca) is seared.
This is a homage to water.
Beginning & end.”
Source: The Lorca Variations
“Lorcan had sensed it once before, that day at Mistward. When the Queen of Terrasen had laid waste to the Valg princes, when her power had been a behemoth surging from the deep, setting the world trembling.
That was nothing-nothing---compared to the power that now roared into the world.”
Source: Empire of Storms
“Lorcan prowled to Rowan, his dark power flickering, rippling away across the waves as if in a silent boom of thunder.”
Source: Empire of Storms
“Lorcan’s magic was that of will - of death and thought and destruction. There was no name for it. Not even his queen had known what it was, where it had come from. A gift from the dark god, from Hellas, Maeve had mused - a dark gift, for her dark warrior.”
Source: Empire of Storms
“Lorcan sent a wave of his dark power into them and they all dropped to the earth in a dark rain.
Every time he killed, she felt the earth shudder. Not in fear of him, but as if it were awakening. Listening.”
Source: Empire of Storms
“Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.”
“Lord Aberdeen...quoted the Declaration of Independence, saying that all Americans were entitled to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and then said that the declaration apparently had been discarded so that each individual state, and not the nation, could decide who had liberty and could pursue happiness and who could not.”
Source: The Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History
“Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders; and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people.”
Source: Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861
“Lord above, was there a better sight than a woman flush with passion, her skin dewy and pink, her breasts bouncing from the force of his thrusts?”
Source: Moonglow
“Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a cat amusing himself among the butterflies without a need to interfere should their wings get torn off. They were only butterflies, after all.”
“Lord Akeldama sighed. 'You lovebirds, how will I endure such flirtations constantly in my company? How déclassé, Lord Maccon, to love your own wife.”
Source: Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate
“Lord Almighty, I am grateful for the gift of life.”
“Lord Almighty we need you. Work in us to do your will.”
“Lord Almighty your grace is all I need.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Lord Almighty, your statutes stand firm.”
“Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest
“Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace." "Whatever," the god said.”
“Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.”
“Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but little rest. And it is not necessary to invest a wise man with power to convince him that it is a garment bedizened with gold, which dazzles the beholder by its splendor, but oppresses the wearer by its weight.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.”
“Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.”
“Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.”
“Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship with anyone. He could charm or he could bully; he could give or he could take; he was glad to see his guests arrive and pleased to see them go. Although many people genuinely loved him, he was incapable of believing that this was either possible or true. No wonder he was so restless, so impatient, so vindictive, so quick to lose his temper, so eager to stir things up.”
“Lord Bendtner is the best player of all times”
“Lord Bentley seemed to have given up conversation in favor of smoldering looks. After having been professionally smoldered by Mallery, she found Lord Bentley's attempt to be just sad.”
Source: Midnight in Austenland
“Lord bless our journey on earth.
Lord grant us the grace and will-power to fulfill our mission in the world.”
“Lord Bourne knows precisely where I've been and with whom for the duration of our short, disastrous marriage." She stepped toward Michael, her offense making her bold. "Home, alone. Instead of here, where the female half of London is apparently wishing they had the password to his bed." His eyes went wide.
"I would appreciate it if you would leave, Michael," she added, tossing the mask and the rose to the billiard table. "You see, I've been looking forward to this billiards lesson. And you are making it very difficult to enjoy.”
Source: A Rogue by Any Other Name
“Lord Buddha himself taught that basically, human nature is pure, egoless, just as the sky is by nature clear, not cloudy. Clouds come and go, but the blue sky is always there; clouds don’t alter the fundamental nature of the sky. Similarly, the human mind is fundamentally pure.”
Source: Becoming Your Own Therapist
“Lord Buddha Said "A strong mind is not affected by the dualities of praise and
blame. It does not seek validation or approval from others, nor
does it allow criticism to undermine its confidence. Instead, it
remains grounded in its own inherent strength and wisdom.”
Source: Whole-Self Prosperity: Stepping up on a Transformative Journey to Manifest Abundance and Wholeness
“Lord, but he was a big, beautiful beast of a man.
There was just so much of him. Tall, broad, powerfully muscled. And utterly bare, save for that thin bit of toweling and his thick, dark hair. He had a great deal of hair. Not only plastered in damp curls on his head, but defining the hard line of his jaw. And lightly furring his chest.
He had nipples. Two of them.
Eyes, Penny. He has two of those, too. Focus on the eyes.
Sadly, that strategy didn't help.His eyes were chips of onyx. Chips of onyx dipped in ink, then encased in obsidian, then daubed with pitch, then thrown into a fathomless pit. At midnight.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds?
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.”
“Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.”
“Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.”
“Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.”
“Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.”
“Lord Chesterfield advises his son “to speak often, but not to speak much at a time; so that if he does not please, he will not at least displease to any great extent.”
Rousseau tells us, that, “persons who know little, talk a great deal, while those who know a great deal say very little.”
Source: Martine's Handbook of Etiquette
“Lord Chesterfield designated ugly women as the third sex; how shall we place ugly men.”
“Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.”
Source: Phineas Redux
“Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.”
“Lord Cut-Glass, in his kitchen full of time, squats down alone to a dogdish, marked Fido, of peppery fish-scraps and listens to the voices of his sixty-six clocks, one for each year of his loony age, and watches, with love, their black-and-white moony loudlipped faces tocking the earth away: slow clocks, quick clocks, pendulumed heart-knocks, china, alarm, grandfather, cuckoo; clocks shaped like Noah's whirring Ark, clocks that bicker in marble ships, clocks in the wombs of glass women, hourglass chimers, tu-wit-tuwoo clocks, clocks that pluck tunes, Vesuvius clocks all black bells and lava, Niagara clocks that cataract their ticks, old time weeping clocks with ebony beards, clocks with no hands for ever drumming out time
without ever knowing what time it is. His sixty-six singers are all set at different hours. Lord Cut-Glass lives in a house and a life at siege. Any minute or dark day now, the unknown enemy will loot and savage downhill, but they will not catch him napping. Sixty-six different times in his fish-slimy kitchen ping, strike, tick, chime, and tock.”
Source: Under Milk Wood
“Lord Cutler Beckett: [Jack is about to light a cannon that's pointed at the mast] You're mad.
Jack Sparrow: Thank goodness for that, 'cause if I wasn't this would probably never work.
[fires the cannon, which catapults him onto his ship, landing safely on his feet behind his crew]
Jack Sparrow: And that was without even a single drop of rum.”
“Lord Darkanon and the Lost Souls
An epic dark-fantasy saga about Lord Darkanon’s eternal war for lost souls. It’s both mythic and philosophical, blending elements of despair, power, and redemption in a shadow-drenched realm.”
“Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.”
“Lord deliver mankind from darkness into light”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Lord deliver me from myself.”
Source: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: Or, the Christian Religion, as Professed by a Physician; Freed from Priest-craft and the Jargon of Schools
“Lord Dexter is a man of fame;
Most celebrated is his name;
More precious far than gold that's pure,
Lord Dexter shine forevermore.”
“Lord Dexter is a man of fame;
Most celebrated is his name.
More precious than gold that's pure,
Lord Dexter, shine forevermore.”