Beatrice Quotes

In her eyes is the living Hght Of a wanderer to earth From a far celestial height: Summers five are all the span - Summers five since Time began To veil in mists of human night A shining angel-birth.Does an angel look from her eyes? Will she suddenly spring away, And soar to her home in the skies? Beatrice! Blessing and blessed to be! (Lewis Carroll)
"Look,” said Rumfoord, "life for a punctual person is like a roller coaster.” He turned to shiver his hands in her face. "All kinds of things are going to happen to you! Sure,” he said, "I can see the whole roller coaster you're on. And sure-I could give you a piece of paper that would tell you about every dip and turn, warn you about every bogeyman that was going to pop out at you in the tunnels. But that wouldn't help you any.” "I don't see why not,” said Beatrice. "Because you'd still have to take the roller-coaster ride,” said Rumfoord. "I didn't design the roller coaster, I don't own it, and I don't say who rides and who doesn't. I just know what it's shaped like. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
"I liked him very much,” said Constant. "The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms,” said Beatrice. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The hell with the human race!” said Beatrice. "You're a member of it, you know,” said Rumfoord. "Then I'd like to put in for a transfer to the chimpanzees!” said Beatrice. "No chimpanzee husband would stand by while his wife lost all her coconuts. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born. View quote
William Shakespeare
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? View quote
William Shakespeare
Beatrice: He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me; and he that is less than a man, I am not for him. View quote
William Shakespeare
'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart. View quote
Eli Roth
Do not rest in so profound a doubt except she tell it thee, who shall be a light between truth and intellect. I know not if thou understand: I speak of Beatrice. View quote
Dante Alighieri
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me. View quote
Brendan Behan
No dream his life was-but a fight! Could any Beatrice see A lover in that anchorite? (Thomas William Parsons)
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Dante attained the purgatorial hill, Trembled at hidden virtue without flaw, Shook with a mighty power beyond his will, - Did Beatrice deny what Dante saw? All lovers live by longing, and endure: Summon a vision and declare it pure. View quote
Theodore Roethke