Rabp Quotes

“True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.”
― Jean Toomer

“There's no easy way to do this.
So do it right:
weep, laugh, watch, pray, love,
live, give thanks and praise;
comfort, mend, honor,
and remember.”
― Thomas Lynch

“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)”
― George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950

“...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win.”
― Henry Youngman

“And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation.”
― Jane Austen

“Believe me, if you’re a teenager, you’re always in the damned woods. Literally, you’re in the woods — probably too much you’re in the woods. And metaphorically you’re in the woods, in your life.”
― Jay Parini

“Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, \ And there are words not made with lungs”
― Richard Crashaw, The Complete Poetry of Richard Crashaw

“Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.”
― Henri Lacordaire