“I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]”
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English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes
p. 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11
Source: 1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)
“There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.”
Melissa Kite, "Revealed: Brown's furious response to Blair after PM reneged on his promises to quit last year", Sunday Telegraph, 9 January 2005, p. 1.
According to Brown's biographer Robert Peston, Brown made this remark to Tony Blair in October 2004 when Blair announced his intention to fight for a third term of government, after telling Brown he intended to stand down.
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“I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.”
Source: True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
“Much suspected by me,
Nothing proved can be,
Quoth Elizabeth prisoner.”
Written with a diamond on her window at Woodstock (1555), published in Acts and Monuments (1563) by John Foxe.
“[Matrimony] is the grave of love.”
Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 5 (In London and Moscow), chap. 8 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/c/casanova/c33m/chapter106.html (“She won’t believe it, as she knows my horror for the sacrament of matrimony.” “How is that?” “I hate it because it is the grave of love.”)
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“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.”
Variant: Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
Source: Invisible Monsters