Rue – Quotes

Too often we bask

Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they … Read more

I cannot love thee;

I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee! Emily Bronte

If I indulge myself

If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into Rue Mimosas, looking for the house of Rene Magritte. It was August, 1965. I was 33 years old and about to meet the man whose profound and witty surrealist paintings … Read more

Suddenly Saracen Rue looked

Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them. Derek Landy

Tanith frowned. Did people

Tanith frowned. Did people still go on DATES any more? She was sure they did. They probably called it something different though. She tried to think of the last date she’d been on. The last PROPER date. Did fighting side by side with Saracen Rue count as a date? They ended up snuggling under the … Read more

She has good instincts,

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She’ll rue the day. David O. Selznick

Each moss, Each shell, each

Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram’d This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature’s self would rue. Benjamin Stillingfleet

How like fish we

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook! Aldo Leopold

What actually happened was

What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings – about twenty four of them – and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged ‘was a good move!’. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the … Read more

When I was one-and-twenty

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.’ But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; ‘Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.’ And I am two-and-twenty And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.
A. E. Housman