Funny Quotes - Page : 8

Thomas Pynchon: "Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be, at the bottom of a fold, it's impossible to determine warp, woof, or pattern anywhere else. By virtue, however, of existing in one gather it is assumed there are others, compartmented off into sinuous cycles each of which had come to assume greater importance than the weave itself and destroy any continuity. Thus it is that we are charmed by the Funny-looking automobiles of the '30's, the curious fashions of the '20's, the particular moral habits of our grandparents. We produce and attend musical comedies about them and are conned into a false memory, a phony nostalgia about what they were. We are accordingly lost to any sense of continuous tradition. Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see." # Life and Living # Music # Habit

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette: "Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?" # Infatuation # Men and Women # Innocence

John Donne: "Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me." # Infatuation # Censorship # Freedom

George Eliot: "Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us." # Infatuation # Vision # Perseverance

Edward Gibbon: "I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being." # Infatuation # Friends and Friendship # Sex

Edward Hoagland: "There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years." # Infatuation # Love # Belief

Edna St Vincent Millay: "I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year." # Infatuation # Love # Heart

Cesare Pavese: "One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness." # Infatuation # Love # Identity

William Shakespeare: "I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage." # Infatuation # Bankers and Banking # Opportunity

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: "Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!" # Infatuation # Love # Smile