“It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.”
Source: Queens' Play
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Dorothy Dunnett8
British writer 1923–2001Related quotes
“His mind fell asleep. His wits fell awake. His cock trembled like a harp-string.”
Mervyn Peake book Titus Alone
Source: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 42 (p. 881)
“On more than one occasion when reading Epifanio de los Santos, one reads Don Juan Valera.”
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) Filipino politician
As quoted by Menendez Pelayo from Manila Spanish Daily in The Manila Tribune of April 19, 1928.
BALIW
Sufyan al-Thawri (716–778) Muslim Scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 29
Mary Wollstonecraft book Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Letter 12
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
Context: Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose. Besides, few like to be seen as they really are; and a degree of simplicity, and of undisguised confidence, which, to uninterested observers, would almost border on weakness, is the charm, nay the essence of love or friendship, all the bewitching graces of childhood again appearing.
Louis Riel (1844–1885) Canadian politician
As quoted in The Defiant Imagination : Why Culture Matters (2004) by Max Wyman, p. 85