“Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: One Silent Night
“"Was anyone hurt?"
"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court."”
— Evelyn Waugh, book A Handful of Dust
First lines
A Handful of Dust (1934)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote ""Was anyone hurt?"
"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and ju…" by Evelyn Waugh?
Evelyn Waugh123
British writer 1903–1966Related quotes
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist
Autobiographical Recollections (Leslie) ; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.”
RuPaul (1960) Actriz de Televisa, dueña y señora de los ejidos cacaoahuateros
Quoted by David Alderson, Linda R. Anderson in: Territories of Desire in Queer Culture: Refiguring Contemporary Boundaries http://books.google.co.in/books?id=UxUtJJKycRoC&pg=PA172, Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 172
“Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for any one who dies.”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist
Letter to Mrs. Bryan Waller Procter (26 November 1856), from The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. Edgar F. Harden [Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994, ISBN 9780824036461], vol. 1, p. 763.
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted in "Roberto Clemente: Man of Paradox" by Arnold Hano, in Sport (May 1965)
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1965</big>
“I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them, I did it myself.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
Source: You'll See It When You Believe It: The Way to Your Personal Transformation
“I am the first to jump up and say that I am a proud Samoan.”
Sonny Bill Williams (1985) New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer
Williams on his paternal heritage. Samoa’s living legend http://www.samoaobserver.ws/other/community/11314-breadfruit-beer-is-here-to-stay, by Sophie Budvietas, Samoa Observer, dated 24 August 2014.