Nuala O'Faolain Quotes

Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.

Nuala O'Faolain

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• We are not by nature cruel.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Nature
  • Cruel

• Women are amazing lovers.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Lovers

• Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

  

  Ouida
  • Kind
  • Beauty
  • Cruel

• Aristocracy is always cruel.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Always
  • Cruel
  • Aristocracy

• I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Love
  • Problem
  • For Her

• I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Black
  • Hate
  • Lovers

• Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

  

  Anthony Hope
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Giving

• From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road

  

  Van Morrison
  • Dark
  • Road
  • Lovers

• Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Hate
  • Kind
  • Cruel

• Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Lovers
  • Quarrel

• Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Lovers

• Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.

  

  Plato
  • Wisdom
  • Mankind
  • Lovers

• Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

  

  Plato
  • Rule
  • Lovers
  • Cowardice

• Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Americans
  • Cruel
  • Dollar

• Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • Causes
  • Loss

• Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Life
  • Enough
  • Cruel

• Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Brother

• He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

  

  Chuck Berry

• If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Men
  • Leisure
  • Mary

• The FBI's director's letter to Congress revealed that there were e-mails on Clinton aide Huma Abedin's computer, but that's just about it, just that there were emails, not much more information.

  

  Alison Stewart
  • Information
  • Congress
  • Emails

• If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.

  

  Akiva Goldsman
  • Move
  • Genre
  • Useful

• Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.

  

  Nuala O'Faolain
  • Lovers
  • Cruel