S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires”
“She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.”
Source: Rave: poems, 1975-1999
“She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.”
Source: Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author
“She who means no mischief does it all.”
Source: Poems
“She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.”
Source: The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author
“She who only finds her self-esteem
In others' admiration, begs an alms;
Depends on others for her daily food,
And is the very servant of her slaves;
Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour,
O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert,
Which not ennobles but degrades her state.”
Source: The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie
“She who pays the undertaker calls the tune.”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
“She who received the seed of eternal glory Now dispenses grace, the seed of glory-to-come. My womb was the chalice of the impenetration of God That became the Incarnation of God and man”
“She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration.”
Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“She who resists as though she would not win,
By her own treason falls an easy prey.”
“She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.”
“She who saw the deep”
Source: There Are Rivers in the Sky
“She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.”
Source: Bordering on fiction: Chantal Akerman's D'Est
“She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.”
“She who tells the story makes history”
“She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!”
“She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.”
“She: Why can't I trust people? Is it some kind of a disorder with me?
He: It is good that you don't trust people. People may change as the seasons do. When your heart feels right then only trust someone!”
“She: Why do I feel as if you are going far away from me.
He: Don't feel sad. I may be going far away in distance, but I stay in your heart forever.
She: Don't wanderers forget feelings in their wanderings?
He: When I was wandering in the roads of life, your heart gave me a place to stay. Can I forget it?”
“She: Why do I feel this deep pain in my heart?
He: It is natural for a human being to feel the pain of a broken heart!
She: Will I ever come out of this pain?
He Absolutely yes!
She: Are you sure?
He: Yes! Be patient! One fine day time will mend your broken heart!”
“She: Why do I feel this deep pain in my heart?
He: It is natural for a human being to feel the pain of a broken heart!
She: Will I ever come out of this pain?
He: Absolutely yes!
She: Are you sure?
He: Yes! Be patient! Time will one fine day mend your broken heart!”
“She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.”
“She," Wilkes interrupted. "Our overlord and master is a chick.”
Source: BZRK: Apocalypse
“She will at least be decently clothed as she waits. Tomorrow I shall find her a brush and powder and whatever else a woman of her dignity requires.”
Fin rolled her eyes. “Is ‘dignity’ what you call it?”
Jeannot offered her his hand. Fin took it and pulled herself up from the deck. She was barefoot and her pants and shirt were stained with everything from blood to oakum to lampblack. She stretched her shirt out between her hands and considered its mottle of stains. “I’m not dignified?” she asked.
When Fin looked up, Jeannot had an eyebrow cocked high and one side of his mouth was curled in amusement. “Where you are concerned, much requires redefinition.”
Source: Fiddler's Green
“She will be faithful to herself. And that may, or it may not, involve being faithful to him. It won’t be her decision.”
“She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.”
“She will blind everyone with bright light to cover the truth ...”
“She will bow to no one. Her destiny will be what she wants it to be.”
Source: Clytemnestra
“She will bring about the downfall of the realm. Destiny beckons and sacrifice demands. Will you not sacrifice one to save us all?” “The only sacrifices that will be made will be for her,” Theon retorted.”
“she will change the world someday, her cure of love in a world gone mad; is the gentle kind of touch that will teach women to grow and men to rise.”
“She will die if you love her not, And she will die ere she might make her love known”
“She will gasp for air when she sees you. She will exhale. That's how you know when it's your wife. When you notice that your presence took her breath away, she falls into your arms, and you become one.”
“She will give you all the minute particulars, which only woman's language can make interesting - in our communications we only deal in the great”
Source: Emma
“She will have brown eyes that say everything I ever need to know without her having to speak. She will be beyond extraordinary. She is beyond extraordinary. I will give her everything she ever wanted. She will never have to be afraid or alone. She will always have me. I will never let anything happen to her.”
Source: The Rift
“She will later tell me she remembers nothing after she entered the bathroom. And later, when she has her last day of chemo, I'll call her to see how she's feeling. "I'm angry," she'll say. "I'm angry and I'm scared and I'm mad at myself for not just being happy and grateful." The truth is that you can be angry and scared and happy and grateful and tired and fed up at the same time. I guess that's the gift of cancer.”
Source: Series of Catastrophes and Miracles, A: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer
“She will learn in time that she can lie, and the words will flow like wine, easily poured, easily swallowed.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“She will leave me.
It’s six AM. Breakfast for one. Eggs, sunny-side-up, like the morning outside; two-cheese English muffin, melting in the toaster oven; already humid outside; coffee will be a little bitter today, no matter how much sweetener gets put in it. The OJ will stay in the fridge – my stomach can do without the citric acid bombardment this morning.
She will pack her things and leave me.
Coffee brews. Radio station plays then breaks from classical music, telling me what's already evident about the weather.
She will complain that she cannot get along with me.
Eggs pop and sizzle as the news comes on.”
“She will leave you in a spellbinding trance
And you will be grateful for it
The magic that seems to surround her
Is of a beauty that can blur”
Source: A Candid Aim
“She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.”
“She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.”
Source: EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature
“she will never grow old, her heart is too beautiful.”
“She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.”
Source: Emma
“She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.”
Source: Collected poems: Not so deep as a well
“She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her she should be.”
Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
“She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?”
Source: Daughter of Sand and Stone
“She will not die today. I won't let her.”
Source: The First Battle
“She will not take you to Heaven unless you help her build the stairs.”
Source: Feast
“She will not tell you all her thoughts, feelings, and emotions. You have to understand her unsaid words.”
“She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.”
Source: The Tempest
“She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.”