Romeo + Juliet  - Quotes

 Romeo:
If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this. My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet:
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this. For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
Romeo:
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers, too?
Juliet:
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo:
Well, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet:
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
Romeo:
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Romeo:
[They kiss] Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.
Juliet:
Then have my lips the sin that they have took?
Romeo:
Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.
Juliet:
[they kiss again] You kiss by the book.
 



Lily Tomlin  - Quotes

 Why is it that when we talk to God we 

Tags: devotion   prayer     
Alexander  - Quotes

 Young Nearchus:
Master? Master?
Aristotle:
Yes?
Young Nearchus:
Master?
Aristotle:
Yes, out with it, out with it.
Young Nearchus:
Why are the Persians so cruel?
Aristotle:
That is not the subject for today Nearchus. But it is true, the Oriental races are known for their barbarity and slavish devotion to their senses. Excess in all things is the undoing of men. That is why we Greeks are superior, we practice control of our senses. Moderation. [laughs]
Aristotle:
We hope.
 



Emma  - Quotes

 Emma Woodhouse:
[Seating herself in a carriage] My, this weather...
Rev. Elton:
Miss Woodhouse, please! Fate has left us alone for a reason.
Emma Woodhouse:
Mr. Elton! Why do you seize my hand!
Rev. Elton:
I do not seize your hand so much as the opportunity to tell you that I am hoping, no, fearing; ready to die if you refuse me!
Emma Woodhouse:
Good heavens! Go back!
Rev. Elton:
Surely my ardent attachment to you, my love and devotion cannot help but have made an impression!
Emma Woodhouse:
Mr. Elton! It is I, Miss Woodhouse!
Rev. Elton:
Mm hmm.
Emma Woodhouse:
The party spirits have confused you! Allow me to deliver your message to Miss Smith, but you must direct no more of it to me.
Rev. Elton:
Miss Smith? What sort of message would I want to send to her? Miss Smith?
 

Patrick White  - Quotes

 He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afraid of the instinctive knowledge in the eyes of mules, of the innocent eyes of good men, of the elastic nature of the passions, even of the devotion he had received from some men, and one woman, and dogs. 

Tags: decisions   devotion   dogs   fear   gods   innocence   passion     
Lisa Kleypas  - Quotes

 There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you 

Tags: adoration   devotion   love   soulmates     
Lisa Kleypas  - Quotes

 I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word...the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask. 

Tags: devotion   hathaway   love   merripen     
Brother Lawrence  - Quotes

 We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. 

Tags: action   devotion   love     
Charles Dickens  - Quotes

 I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer, 

Tags: devotion   love   women     
Louisa May Alcott  - Quotes

 There were six dolls to be taken up and dressed every morning, for Beth was a child still, and loved her pets as well as ever. Not one whole or handsome one among them; all were outcasts till Beth took them in; for, when her sisters outgrew these idols, they passed to her.... Beth cherished them all the more tenderly for that very reason, and set up a hospital for infirm dolls. No pins were ever stuck into their cotton vitals; no harsh words or blows were ever given them; no neglect ever saddened the heart of the most repulsive: but all were fed and clothed, nursed and caressed, with an affection which never failed. 

Tags: devotion   love     
Josh Billings  - Quotes

 In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail. 

Tags: devotion   happiness   love     


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