Historical Quotes

Exercise care with what it is you do when you hold my heart in your hands. For it is my love that makes you special. When it is gone, you shall soon know it and you shall be special no more.Shane KP O'Neill - The Gates Of Babylon

~ Shane K.p. O'neill

The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be successful as a lover, you cannot make love to any two in the same way.

~ Shane K.p. O'neill

He knew what he had found here, a precious treasure that had remained hidden away for so long. To the right man, she could give more happiness and fulfilment than any amount of gold, or gems. Just by holding her in his arms, he knew this. He had the key to her heart in his hands. All he had to do was unlock her, and he would enjoy the most wondrous chest of delights. He knew it and he knew, too, that nothing would ever compensate him should he lose her.

~ Shane K.p. O'neill

Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did.

~ Jenny Uglow

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves.

~ P.j. Sullivan

Abignades or abegnadesA term used in te department of the Landes for the intestines of a goose cooked in its blood. Abegnades are found almost solely in the chalosse region, where they are eaten on bread fried in goose fat, with slices of lemon.

~ Escoffier

Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

~ Nancy Reagan

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

~ Anne Rice

He turned to look at her. We've some talking to do.Didn't we do that on the plane ride over here?I doona remember talking. I remember kissing, touching, and many orgasms, but no talking.

~ Donna Grant

Dying a thousand deaths in my head to protect you is better than losing you one time in the flesh.~ Gustaf Ræliksen

~ Renee Vincent

As long as it makes you happy. For the rest of my life, I will do whatever it takes to ensure it. As my wife, you will not want for anything. What you desire, I will provide.

~ Renee Vincent

If my brother, Dægan, was still alive to herald this moment, I know he would have something poetically moving to say. But where I lack in speech, I make up for in determination. Let my actions speak for themselves, for I will have my vengeance. As the last living son of Rælik, I will defend my father’s honor and uphold his noble name. Rally the men for council—my Æsa needs me.”~ Gustaf Ræliksen

~ Renee Vincent

Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in.

~ Rachelle Rea Cobb

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

~ Aaron A.a. Smith

As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.

~ Sara Sheridan

There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.

~ J. Anderson Coats

Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.

~ Christine Fonseca

I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.

~ Helen Picca

Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.

~ Naomi Wood

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

~ Ryan Lilly

...graced by some delicate, perceptive and fine-boned writing, is at the heart of the book, and Creel gets it all just right.

~ Publishers Weekly

The clouds of night opened like ink blossoming in water.

~ Christopher Fowler

Jill, a comprehensive school teacher in her early thirties, has put her dark past behind her to become a lady in control of her own life. Successful in her career, soon to be divorced and with no emotional ties, she is content. Except that one morning, while trying to find work for a recalcitrant Year 9 class, she finds herself in a dark and murky street in Victorian England. The image soon disappears and she is back in the classroom, but the children she was teaching have gone and so has an hour of her life. Soon Jill finds herself living two parallel lives, one as a teacher and the other as a Victorian governess. And this is just the beginning

~ Jan Hunter

The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.

~ M.c. Halliday

Percy, you are dismissed from my service.Me? Why, my lord?Why? Because, Percy, far from being a fit consort for a prince of the realm, you would bore the leggings off a village idiot. You ride a horse rather less well than another horse would. Your brain would make a grain of sand look large and ungainly, and the part of you that can't be mentioned, I am reliably informed by women around the court, wouldn't be worth mentioning even if it could be. If you put on a floppy hat and a funny codpiece, you might just get by as a fool, but since you wouldn't know a joke if it got up and gave you a haircut, I doubt it. That's why you're dismissed. Oh, I see. And as for you, Baldrick... Yes. You're out, too.

~ Richard Curtis

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

~ Richard Curtis

It's time we woke up, women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools- but who´s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and, what's more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes -and shoes- which of us wants to dance with her? Yes, we blame them for gratifying us, but are we willing to let our wives work? We are not. It hurts our pride, that's all. We are always criticizing them for doing mercenary marriages, but what do we call a girl who marries a chump with no money? Just a poor fool, that's all. And they know it. As for Mother Eve- I wasn't there and I can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the loin's share of keeping it going ever since- how about that?

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in Titanic Rhasody.

~ Jina Bacarr

Love should never be a game.

~ Sherry D. Ficklin

She strove for poised composure, despite feeling like a powerless pawn in a despicable game of human chess, played for the amusement of those who enjoyed tragic endings at the expense of someone else’s happiness—no—their very existence.

~ Collette Cameron

Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!

~ Richard Curtis

Hot-blooded men make war. It’s up to cool-headed queens like us to make the peace.

~ Mark Noce

There is always a danger that those who are less obviously and traditionally important, prominent, or powerful will be left out of the history of human experience.

~ Chloe Schama

I won’t pretend that I deserve you. I am faithless. I have done unforgivable things. And I am broken.” He gestured to his face and body with trembling hands. “I know you see past these things when you look at me . . . but I hope I can be enough for you.”“What? Enough for me? Gabriel, you are everything.

~ Rachel L. Demeter

Now, tomorrow, and always.

~ Rachel L. Demeter

Whether David believed in her affliction or not didn’t change the fact that it existed, and some day it would catch up with her.

~ Tamara Hughes

Let this moment whisper through eternity. Let it fill my every dream and visit me each night.

~ Rachel L. Demeter

In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fault, that I was born in a country which was not congenial to my desires. -1815, in a letter to her father William Patterson

~ Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

You are a soldier. A fighter. And now you must fight. Not for the emperor, not for France . . . but for yourself.

~ Rachel L. Demeter

Under the sanctuary are the catacombs where the dead wait for resurrection. The living do not venture there. The caverns here underneath the Sanctuary are illuminated only by dim shafts of light from the sanctuary. The walls are etched with flowers of frost, but at least I am out of the wind. Dark bays line the hall in front of me, a vast rabbit warren, each hold filled to the brim with the scent of the past.

~ Ned Hayes