Able Quotes - Page 138
Marie Corelli (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Marie Corelli (Illustrated)”, p.8930, Delphi Classics
Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.15, Grove Press
Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.151, Modern Library
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Observer 20 August (1978)
All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.
Maeve Brennan (1998). “The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.380, Oxford Paperbacks
Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.371, Baen Books
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
"History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 14,
Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.
Lisa Genova (2013). “Love Anthony”, p.237, Simon and Schuster