Harriet Vane Quotes

#1. She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses. #Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

#2. Harriet said, "You shouldn't have reminded me to sign that book, Peter."
"Why ever not? Have you suddenly become bashful about your hard-earned glories?"
"Because it watn's hers," said Harriet. "It was a library copy."
"Stroke of luck for the ratepaers of the City of Westminster," he said, grinning. #Quote by Jill Paton Walsh

#3. Harriet! I've never met anyone called Harriet in real life. I had a brief fantasy about her being Harriet Vane, because she'd be about the right age for that, except that Harriet Vane would be addressed as Lady Peter, and anyway she's fictional. I can tell the difference, really I can. #Quote by Jo Walton

#4. The incident had that rich savor of the ludicrous which neither pity nor charity can destroy. Unfortunately, she could not in decency share it with anybody; she could only enjoy it in lonely ecstasies of mirth. #Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

#5. She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference. #Quote by Mary Allsebrook

#6. There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne. #Quote by Harriet Martineau

#7. I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar. #Quote by Franklin P. Adams

#8. You should have no fear," said Harriet. "There's no sense in fear."
"I've been afraid all my life, Harriet," said Michael.
"Nonsensical all your life, you mean," said Harriet. "But a person being nonsensical through the first half of his life is no reason to my way of thinking why he should be nonsensical through the second half too. It's nice to have a bit of change. #Quote by Elizabeth Goudge

#9. It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. #Quote by Harriet Martineau

#10. The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be. #Quote by Harriet Lerner

#11. It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it. #Quote by Harriet Lerner

#12. Where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? - Love's Labor Lost. The eyes appears to be more immediately connected with the soul than any other organ. A woman reflects every emotion, almost every thought from her two wonderful, priceless eyes, and no feature of her face is more a telltale of her nature. "Show me," says the old Chinese proverb, "a man's eyes, and I will tell you what he might have been. Show me his mouth, and I will tell you what he has been." The same is true of women. Up to thirty or thirty-five a woman may be actress enough to make her eyes tell one tale, while her life would reveal another; but little by little the true state of a woman's soul stands forth in the expression, the frankness, the furtiveness, the candor, or the boldness #Quote by Harriet Hubbard Ayer

#13. No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human. #Quote by Harriet Lerner

#14. I's wicked I is. I's mighty wicked; anyhow I can't help it. #Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

#15. I was raised on the struggle of elders - iron collars, severed feet, the rifle of dirty Harriet, and down through the years, the Muslims and regal Malcolm. But mostly what I saw around me was rank dishonor: cable and Atari plugged into every room, juvenile parenting, niggers sporting kicks with price tags that looked like mortgage bills. The Conscious among us knew the whole race was going down, that we'd freed ourselves from slavery and Jim Crow but not the great shackling of minds. The hoppers had no picture of the larger world. We thought all our battles were homegrown and personal, but, like an evil breeze at our back, we felt invisible hands at work, like someone else was still tugging at levers and pulling strings. #Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

#16. I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.' #Quote by Harriet Tubman

#17. Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful. #Quote by Harriet Lerner

#18. Then swear you'll make this so damn good I won't regret it in the morning."
His mouth molded into that sexy, dimpled grin. "Darlin', the only thing you're going to regret is putting me off for so long. #Quote by Victoria Vane

#19. What would they talk about?
Hi, my name's Vane and I howl at the moon late at night in the form of a wolf. I sleep with your daughter and don't think I could live without her. Mind if I have a beer? Oh and while we're at it, let me introduce my brothers. This one here is a deadly wolf known to kill for nothing more than looking at him cross-eyed, and the other one is comatose because some vampires sucked the life out of him after we'd both been sentenced to death by our jealous father.
Yeah, that would go over like a lead balloon. #Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology. #Quote by Harriet Martineau

#21. Harriet was silent, thinking, and then she said, "It is too hard to be a person. You don't only have to go on and on. You have to be
" she looked for the word she needed and could not find it. Then, "You have to be tall as well," said Harriet. #Quote by Rumer Godden

#22. Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability. #Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

#23. If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, why should you hesitate? You blush, Harriet. - Does any body else occur to you at this moment under such a definition? Harriet, Harriet, do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion. At this moment whom are you thinking of? The #Quote by Jane Austen

#24. Moving in this direction requires us to clarify - to ourselves and others - what's important to us. Having an authentic voice means that: We can openly share competence as well as problems and vulnerability. We can warm things up and calm them down. We can listen and ask questions that allow us to truly know the other person and to gather information about anything that may affect us. We can say what we think and feel, state differences, and allow the #Quote by Harriet Lerner

#25. Sunshine, it's the Celt wanting a little reassurance that I haven't eaten you or anything. (Vane) #Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon

#26. All men are free and equal, in the grave, #Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

#27. It almost makes me cry to tell, what foolish Harriet befell. #Quote by Heinrich Hoffmann

#28. There is no inherent reason or necessity that all women should voluntarily choose to devote their lives to one animal function and its consequences. Numbers of women are wives and mothers only because there is no other career open to them,---no other occupation for their feelings or activities. #Quote by Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill

#29. The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal. #Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

#30. Never wound a snake; kill it. #Quote by Harriet Tubman

#31. Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind? #Quote by Gertrude Berg

#32. [On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation. #Quote by Harriet Martineau

#33. The shape of her head and the turn of her neck and bust were peculiarly noble, and the long golden-brown hair that floated like a cloud around it, the deep spiritual gravity of her violet blue eyes, shaded by heavy fringes of golden brown #Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

#34. Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did. #Quote by Harriet Tubman

#35. A good man is a whole lot more satisfying than a thermal blanket and a vibrator."
"Grams! I can't believe you just said that!"
Her grandmother replied with a win. "I may be old, sweetheart, but I'm not dead yet. #Quote by Victoria Vane

#36. The police are on the way to arrest you for stealing my heart, hijacking my feelings, and driving me crazy. #Quote by Harriet Morgan

#37. Harriet loved her new persona. As Maxine, she was courageous and accomplished, a woman of sophistication equally at home in Cannes or on the Indian subcontinent. As Maxine she didn't walk, she strode; she did not merely see, but beheld. The very air she breathed was bracing. Here was a conqueror of worlds. #Quote by Diane Hammond

#38. The scripture says "oppression makes it even a wise man mad" ... #Quote by Harriet Jacobs

#39. A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left. #Quote by Harriet Morgan

#40. To listen with an open heart and ask questions to better help us understand the other person is a spiritual exercise, in the truest sense of the word. #Quote by Harriet Lerner

#41. What is it with you and time capsules?"
"I like the idea of a permanent record," he explains. "Something to say, This Is Who I Am, even when I'm not that person anymore... #Quote by Harriet Reuter Hapgood

#42. And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honour and justice by dollars and cents. #Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

#43. Do you know how we tell the difference between black bear and grizzly bear scat back in Wyoming? Black bear droppings have berries and the Grizzly bear droppings contain little bells and smell like pepper. #Quote by Victoria Vane

#44. I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house! #Quote by Harriet Harman

#45. We all long to have a relationship so relaxed and intimate that we can share anything and everything without first thinking about it. Who wants to hide out in a relationship in which we can't allow ourselves to be known? Speaking in our own voice, not in someone else's, is an undeniably good idea. I've yet to meet the person who aspires to be phony or invisible in her closest relationships. The dictate "Be yourself" is a cultural ideal touted everywhere, and luckily, no one else is as qualified for the job. #Quote by Harriet Lerner

#46. In America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet with which they load their tables; and there can be no doubt that the general health of the nation would be increased by a change in our customs in this respect. #Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe