Suits Quotes - Page 9

• ...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

  John Updike

  Hate, Hatred, Shelter

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.302, Random House

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• Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later developed) may weary me, but they don't hurt or humiliate. Impossible lovers can't cheat on us, or smile at us falsely, or be calculating in their caresses. They never forsake us, and they don't die or disappear. --The book of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hurt, Book, Imagination

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.155, Penguin UK

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• Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

  Jim Harrison

  Government, Years, People

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Legends of the Fall”, p.109, Atlantic Books

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• What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Girl, Ties, Hair

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• Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]

  Arthur Golden

  Suits You, Water, Personality

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.125, Random House

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• I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my!

  Jean Webster

  Beautiful, Blue, Class

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to the adjoining county, city or state, but to your immediate surroundings. Forget Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and all the others. Do your part to the best of your ability, regardless of the consequences. Above all, do not wait for the next man to follow suit.

  Henry Miller

  Jesus, Men, Russia

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square.

  Cassandra Clare

  Squares, Tables, Magnus Bane

  "City of Ashes". Book by Cassandra Clare, 2008.

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• You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting." "I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much better than square.

  Cassandra Clare

  Squares, Tables, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Hair, Yellow, Giants

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• I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

  Anne Stuart

  Lied, Knows

  Anne Stuart (2012). “The Devil's Waltz”, p.347, Harlequin

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• I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.

  Shirley Jackson

  Buttons, Acorns

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• It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.

  Stephen Fry

  Ideas, People, Facts

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• Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks - even on the ceiling, though don't ask me how she did that. So there I was, perched on all fours, cleaning up the puke at the homecoming dance in my best blue suit, which was exactly what I had wanted to avoid in the first place. And Jamie, my date, was on all fours, too, doing exactly the same thing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jobs, Wall, Blue

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• The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

  Aristotle

  Character, Government, Democracy

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?

  Nora Roberts

  Running, Suits You, Doe

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• She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

  A. A. Milne

  Retirement, Bird, Tree

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Once on a Time”, p.206, The Floating Press

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• ...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief

  Richelle Mead

  Queens, Sorry, Grief

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.247, Penguin

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• That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

  Charles Frazier

  Wish, Wipe, Goes On

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.258, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Avid

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• Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue,with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree.

  Pablo Neruda

  Men, Shoes, Feet

  Pablo Neruda, “Nothing But Death”

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• I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born to the same parents, you grow up in the same household, you're both girls. How do you end up with such wildly different personalities?...One puts on a bikini like little semaphore flags and lies by the pool looking sexy, and the other puts on her school bathing suit and swims her heart out like a dolphin.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Sexy, Growing Up

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After Dark”, p.16, Random House

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• You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

  Michael Palin

  Rubber, Chickens, Plans

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• I was just wondering if you were armed. You want anything? Dagger, maybe?" He opened his own suit jacket just a bit, and Simon saw something long an metallic glinting against the inside lining. "No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.

  Cassandra Clare

  Crazy, Long, Want

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• Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody, however, which is greatly to its credit.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Cake, Rivers, Credit

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.7, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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