Dickon Famous Quotes & Sayings
25 Dickon Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
You seem to forget, Dickon, that we are dealing with the Spider King. Louis realized, just as you have, that it would take more to mate dog to cat than a shared lust for the English crown.— Sharon Kay Penman
Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.— Douglas Adams
You always want what you cant have.— Sherr
The universe dilated within him, above him. Something like joy stirred in Lancaster's being, a sublime ecstasy born of terror. His heart felt as if it might burst, might leap from his chest. His cheeks were wet. Drops of blood glittered on his bare arms, the backs of his hands, his thighs, his feet. Black as the blackest pearls come undone from a string, the droplets lifted from him, drifted from him like a slow motion comet tail, and floated toward the road, the fields. For the first time in an age he heard nothing but the night sounds of crickets, his own breath. His skull was quiet.— Laird Barron
Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.— Jessica Day George
She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.— Frances Hodgson Burnett
The world could do with fewer scholars and more cultivated people.— Tracy Lee Simmons
Dickon says anything will understand if you're friends with it for sure, but you have to be friends for sure.— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Hail, Dog of God, was how he welcomed me my first day in Demarest. Took a week before I figured out what the hell he meant. God. Domini. Dog. Canis. Hail, Dominicanis.— Junot Diaz
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.— Rachel Cusk
Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.— Kate O'Mara
As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.— Frances Hodgson Burnett
The art of governing, Dickon, is that of making use of talent wherever you do find it. Trust is too rare an attribute to make it your prime prerequisite for holding office. If I relied only upon those I truly do trust, we'd have a council of empty chairs!— Sharon Kay Penman
The Squire came to the side of the bed, and put his arms under Dickon, and lifted the boy - in a dead sleep all the time - and carried him out so, at the door.— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded.— Mary Stewart
Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.— Erik Erikson
In the absence of sisters, we find sisters. In the absence of mothers, we find mothers. In the absence of family, you are my family.'— Luanne Rice
There's not a man alive who doesn't know fear, Dickon. The brave man is the one who has learned to hide it, that's all— Sharon Kay Penman
Good doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions.— Donna Tartt
So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment. When— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you'll credit it, sir, out of doors he— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.— Madeleine M. Kunin
I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.— Frances Hodgson Burnett
There is no learning without remembering.— Socrates
