Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. M. Forster

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

Kristin Hannah

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

Source Unknown

Wit is more often a shield than a lance.

Les Dawson

I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

James K. Polk

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

James Rollins

The truth is often one's best shield.

Juliana Hatfield

How can I shield myself from the things that I hear?

Samantha Mumba

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.

Antoine Rivarol

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Bill Bryson

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

William Shakespeare

Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.