February 2012
“I fear I have committed a great error; the men who knew their falsity are dead,...”
– Aaron Burr, in the last years of his life (via reneexmaria)
“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
– Voltaire (via kyleschen)
ohjeveuxtarevanche:
Carla Bruni - Quelqu’un m’a...
Napoleonland! ...really, I'm serious. This isn't a... →
“From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally...”
– Sebastian Faulks, The Girl At The Lion D’or (via enchants)
Reading for Fun: What drama! What adventure! Oh, there is no pleasure equal to that of reading the miracle of the novel-to experience such joys and sorrows at the hands of a paperback is truly one of the great pleasures this life has to offer. If I could do nothing but read for the rest of my life, truly, I would be content.
Reading for Class: I DON'T CARE ABOUT THESE WORDS!
Anne//Dublin: Duke of Wellington →
anneontherockyroadtodublin:
Arthur Wellesley: the only man who’s had footwear named after him.
However, other than providing the name for wellies, ‘The Iron Duke’ is featured in history books for besting Napoleon alongside Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. The Brit and Prussian commanded an army, stopped Bonaparte and saved…
“‘Jack, Jack,’ said Stephen, when the lamp was lit, ‘I fear I am a sad...”
– Post Captain by Patrick O’Brian (via tuulikki)
“You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to...”
– Agatha Christie, Autobiography (via southernfriedweird)
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses...”
– T.E. Lawrence (via mikefrawley)
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not...”
– Anne Bradstreet (via corona-borealis)
“I like beautiful things, so I enjoy clothes, but for myself, I like things that...”
– Sofia Coppola (via hal-cy-on)
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
– Oscar Wilde (via solitairepromeneur)
“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to...”
– 1984, George Orwell (via unejeunedemoiselle)
“Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns...”
– J.D. Salinger (via honeychurch)
prayforjackiesstrength asked: 1, 10, 13, 31, 40
“Do you ever feel that there is nothing left to happen—nothing? As if everything...”
– War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (via mykeenknife)
I like my men dead and well written.
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Anonymous asked: 5, 6, 7, 8 - Oh, I plan on giving you the whole thing. Don't worry.
