Fairs Quotes - Page 24

• Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

  Ann Brashares

  Art And Life, Art Life

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• There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.

  Ben Hecht

  Dream, Book, Knights

  "Tell Me the Truth About Love: Memories: 1953-1969". Book by Robert Ayres Carter, Xlibris Corporation, p. 151, 2008.

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• Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Responsibility, Burden, Feels

  Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.287, Delacorte Press

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• But now you're unhappy," he pointed out. "And?" I challenged. "That doesn't seem fair." He shrugged, but his eyes were still intense. I laughed without humour. "Hasn't anyone told you? Life isn't fair." "I believe I have heard that somewhere before," he agreed dryly.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Believe, Eye, Unhappy

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• He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork and leapt from her chair onto the table. Lydia, who was seated nearest her, grabbed her ankle before she could dive at Mr. Collins and, presumably, stab him about the head and neck for such an insult.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Cousin, Mr Collins, Owing

  Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.65, Chronicle Books

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• I think this’ll definitely tide me over while we’re apart,”Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair, considering I still had trouble making my limbs operate. “Oh, Kitten,” he murmured as his lips dragged down my throat. “You didn’t really think we were done, did you?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Thinking, Done, Arms

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• What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Talking, Upset, Pockets

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.

  Patricia Briggs

  Fighting, Rivers, Worry

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.149, Penguin

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• Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-long in ledger all hope forgotten Yet fast-found for friendship fair the book-bringer Hot comes the huntress Fela, flushed with finding Breathless her breast her high blood rising To ripen the red-cheek rouge-bloom of beauty.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Blood, Long

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• To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? Unless it be to think that she is by, And feed upon the shadow of perfection. Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale; Unless I look on Silvia in the day, There is no day for me to look upon; She is my essence, and I leave to be, If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Thinking, Light

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 3, sc. 1, l. 178

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• The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in here eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Daughter, Strong, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. And she was now suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Morning, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

  Mitch Albom

  Men, Life And Death, Good Man

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• D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites were in charge instead of you Crosses?' 'Can't say it's ever crossed my mind,' Jack shrugs. 'I used to think about it a lot,' I sigh. 'Dreams of living in a world with no more discrimination, no more prejudice, a fair police force, an equal justice system, equality of education, equality of life, a level playing field.

  Malorie Blackman

  Dream, Thinking, Justice

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• Then, Éowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful. In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright, and maidens fairer still; but neither flower nor lady have I seen till now in Gondor so lovely, and so sorrowful. It may be that only a few days are left ere darkness falls upon our world, and when it comes I hope to face it steadily; but it would ease my heart, if while the Sun yet shines, I could see you still. For you and I have both passed under the wings of the Shadow, and the same hand drew us back.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Flower, Fall

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• Is it fair for the bears to come down to where humans live, looking for food? Is it fair for the Duke's soldiers to shoot at them? Is it fair for the bears to crush them with giant snowballs? Often, if you point out something that isn't fair, someone will reply, "Life isn't fair." What is to be done with such people?

  Daniel Handler

  Crush, People, Soldier

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• Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Brother, Lying, Firsts

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.543, Bantam Classics

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• I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Long, Noise, Bears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.65, Publishdrive

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• If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Fighting, Thinking, Prepared

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• of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

  Charles Bukowski

  Eight, Ninety, Hundred

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• Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Followers, Discharge

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• Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

  Terry Jones

  Labyrinth, Wonder, Bases

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• Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back home. Somewhere in Antarctica, a whole flock of Magellanic penguins were undergoing psychotherapy.

  Rick Riordan

  Tired, Home, Bird

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• Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.

  William Shakespeare

  Vanity, Glasses, Shining

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Life Is, Deals, Ifs

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Bargain”

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