Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Fielding

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All women seem by nature to be coquettes.

John Dryden

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

Martha Wainwright

I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

James Cameron

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

Beatrice Lillie

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

Deb Caletti

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

Barbara Bush

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

William A. Ward

Vow to be valiant;Resolve to be radiant;Determine to be dynamic;Strive to be sincere;Aspire to be attuned.

John Oliver

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

Mahatma Gandhi

A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself.

Tom Walker

You see it in their faces. He'll be back they say of someone who has vowed to reform.

George Sand

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.