"Quotes"

Tina 2022-04-19 09:03:11

"I'd live for literature alone. I'd dedicate myself to fine writing. But sadly, It's necessary to have a pension to do it."


"Try as he might. This gracious noble lord. Who lifts his pen. And thinks he then can write. Cannot, for who can pen. When he is bored. The mind of leisure only can be trite. This pretty knight who feebly lifts his sword. To make a witless thrust against his doom. Is foiled by what his noble birth affords. Dogs, dogs more dogs and far too many rooms. So fortune smiles on those that own the land. And frowns at the trivia from the dabblers hand.”


“Same person. No difference at all. Just a different sex.”


"A little learning is a dangerous thing."


"she's lived for four hundred years and hardly aged a day. And because this is England. Everyone pretends not to notice. But she has changed. She is no longer trapped by destiny. And, ever since she let go of the past. She found her life was beginning.”

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  • Eugenia 2022-03-23 09:03:30

    Four hundred years of legendary women. For the exquisite sense of formality that Sally Potter often has in her works, illiterate, as I can only use the simple words of "so advanced". The first four sections are heavier, but I prefer the last three ("Social," "Sex," and "Rebirth"). Running in the labyrinth, walking in the cannon fire and free riding on a motorcycle: together they show the most moving and excellent side of a woman who has escaped the shackles.

  • Erich 2022-03-20 09:03:08

    Is it a natural, dull version of Dorian Gray?

Orlando quotes

  • Orlando: And now Mr Greene to the subject closer to my heart and yours. The sacred subject of poetry. You know, I once broke a lady's fan in my enthusiasm to find a rhyme.

    Nick Greene: Enthusiasm can be dangerous.

    Orlando: As a youth I was often mocked for my love of poetry and solitude.

    Nick Greene: Tragic.

    Orlando: And, of course, Mr Greene, your works hold pride of place in my library. To me there is a certain glory about a man who can express in words those great emotions that others can only feel.

  • Nick Greene: If we would speak of poetry then let us first speak of poets lives. Do you know how 'Hamlet' was written? Written while bailiffs were pounding on Shakespeare's door.