Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the authors)
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "M" » Margaret Drabble Quotes
«The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
| Keywords:
compensates
«Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
| About:
Family,
Life
| Keywords:
approved, perpetually, safest, sanctuary, traditional
«When nothing is sure, everything is possible.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
«Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
| Keywords:
affluence, carpets, coconut, coconuts, furniture, infancy, pad, padded, subsistence, texture, threadbare, utility
«The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
«Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
«And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
«You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
| Keywords:
aeroplanes
«Nothing fails like failure»
Author: Margaret Drabble
| About:
Failure
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
