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Want, the mistress of invention.


Mrs. Susannah Centlivre

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Want is the mistress of invention
SUSANNA CENTLIVRE And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE The real Simon Pure.
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE 'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE All policies allowed in war and love
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We’ve Only Just Begun Drive to the Broken Shillelagh and talk to Pierce. Watch the cut scene. Make...
THE CHEAT MISTRESS You can't be mistress of the universe until you are mistress of yourself.
SHANA KAY PHARES The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck
PAUL VIRILIO Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pi...
MEG CABOT An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled wi...
BRIAN SELZNICK It is clear that Germans do not want Mrs. Merkel as their chancellor.
FRANZ MUENTEFERING O sovereign mistress of true melancholy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will be mistress of myself.
JANE AUSTEN She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The Invention of Love,
BEN BRANTLEY Here it is,' Nigel said.
Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.'...
ROALD DAHL I will have the faith... not the faith they want me to have, but another kind of faith which is of m...
FRANK MCCOURT Necessity... the mother of invention.
PLATO Necessity, the mother of invention
GEORGE FARQUHAR My great-grandmother was your great-great-grandfather's mistress, so how about it?
CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
JON KRAKAUER An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the i...
AMIT KALANTRI Doubt is the father of invention.
AMBROSE BIERCE A weak Invention of the Enemy.
COLLEY CIBBER Doubt is the father of invention.
GALILEO GALILEI Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT Exasperation is the mother of invention.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Invention is the mother of necessity.
THORSTEIN VEBLEN Necessity is the mother of invention.
PLATO Mothers are the necessity of invention.
BILL WATTERSON Mother is the invention of necessity.
JONAS BELCK Poverty is the origin of invention
SUNDAY ADELAJA Desperation is the father of invention.
MICHEAL LEE NELSON The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments: its invention was to music what the...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I never said that. Pure invention. Pure invention,
THABO MBEKI Power is my mistress
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE If you want to come over to the jail after the hearing Mrs. Sage, I'll visit with you about this,
MARTIN EDWARDS As a techdomme I love to take control of your digital life, your PC and of course that will have REA...
MISTRESS HARLEY The customer is always wrong.
MISTRESS HARLEY Getting caught is the mother of invention.
ROBERT BYRNE Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
PLATO Love is an unfaithful mistress.
CHIRAG TULSIANI Art is a jealous mistress.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Evolution and the resulting environmental changes are the practice and invention of Mother Nature kn...
ANTHONY P. MAURO, SR. The patent system is a trade-off. We get the 'good' of an invention in exchange for the 'bad' of a t...
JOSH LERNER I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
JANE AUSTEN The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know th...
JOHN SMITH I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idlenes...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, p...
AGATHA CHRISTIE The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significa...
CRAIG MCHUGH A guilty conscience is the mother of invention
CAROLYN WELLS A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
CAROLYN WELLS Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed.
EDWARD YOUNG Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art i...
OCTAVIO PAZ Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art...
OCTAVIO PAZ It was huge to get Marlowe and Susannah after graduating three seniors from our top five last year. ...
ALEXIS ETOW The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.
TOBA BETA Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it mus...
MAX ERNST The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER We don't want a Mrs Thatcher-type figure hitting us with a handbag and telling us what to do.
NORMAN BAKER Owners focus on what they want. Victims focus on what they fear. And both positions are pure interna...
STEVE CHANDLER “Art will not tolerate a mistress.”
JON LUVELLI Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars/ Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.
ALGERNON SWINBURNE Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars/ Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE It was not a commercial piece. It was an in-kind for people who wanted a piece of history. They want...
JAMES MAYS It's the double-take that we're after. With the new packaging we have created a dominant presence wh...
BOB TROMBINO Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON Fly pride, says the peacock: mistress, that you know.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress
FRANCIS BACON SR. A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his m...
HENRY FIELDING Lepida, has anyone ever told you that you're a cruel spiteful selfish slut?...You're vicious. You're...
KATE QUINN Daughter am I in my mother's house, But mistress in my own
RUDYARD KIPLING If you can kiss the mistress, never kiss the maid
PROVERB Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
IGNAZIO SILONE Mrs. Scheele, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Paul got together and thought it up.
JEFF HOWARD I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
IGNAZIO SILONE I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly fro...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from i...
AGATHA CHRISTIE While not commenting specifically on Mrs. Clinton, apparently there are those who want to appeal to ...
BOB MCADAM A kiss of a mistress is what a wife should never see.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Mrs . Henderson Presents
JUDI DENCH Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
BRAD PITT Mrs. Clinton, just as I said to Mario Cuomo -- you can't do it, but I can,
GEORGE PATAKI Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
HENRY ADAMS The sea is my mistress, but you are my wife.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS You, mistress, That have the office opposite to Saint Peter, And keep the gate of hell!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to...
ISAAC D'ISRAELI We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we." "Th...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT

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And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE The real Simon Pure.
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE 'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE All policies allowed in war and love
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE Want is the mistress of invention
SUSANNA CENTLIVRE Lying is a thriving vocation.
SUSANNA CENTLIVRE Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.
SUSANNAH MCCORKLE You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to da...
SUSANNAH CLARK Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.
SUSANNAH GRANT I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.
SUSANNAH YORK We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go wit...
SUSANNAH CAHALAN Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all...
SUSANNAH CAHALAN I was full time on 'Party of Five' for one year, then more like a creative consultant for tw...
SUSANNAH GRANT The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
MRS. JAMIESON What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one fra...
MRS. JAMIESON Two i's company, three i's trumpery.
MRS. PARR He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow.
MRS. MANLEY He says anything that first comes into his mouth.
MRS. MANLEY Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MRS. MANLEY Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MRS. MANLEY Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MRS. MANLEY Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MRS. MANLEY Acerra always drinks till dawn.
MRS. MANLEY A novice always behaves with propriety.
MRS. MANLEY No time like the present.
MRS. MANLEY A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.
MRS. EUSDEN Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.
MRS. CUNNINGHAM You appreciate now what David Beckham goes through - on a larger scale.
MRS JONES At first, I always make it a point to give in to the prejudices of society. That is how I have alway...
MRS. OLIPHANT The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village archit...
MRS. OLIPHANT Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
MRS. OLIPHANT As Sandy and his wife warmed to the tale, one tripping up another in their eagerness to tell everyth...
MRS. OLIPHANT Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished a...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.
MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
MRS HUBBARD DAVIS One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years; Thou hast ta...
MRS. DAVID PORTER He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for othe...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within ...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they don’t do it in the street...
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has ...
MRS. ERNEST AMES Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest, Till vernal suns and v...
MRS. MARY TIGHE Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of...
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.
MRS. ANNA JAMESON Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy; Dreams cannot p...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepare...
MRS. FRANCES MACDONALD CORNFORD It is to hope, though hope were lost.
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN Nearer, my God, to Thee-- Nearer to Thee-- E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; ...
MRS. SARAH FLOWER ADAMS What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?-...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread.
ANNE TAYLOR (MRS. GILBERT) In the busy haunts of men.
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified W...
MRS. CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye ...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast; And the woods against a stormy...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red wit...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure....
MRS. CHARLES E. COWMAN Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it...
ANNE TAYLOR (MRS. GILBERT) Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,-- Crouc...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD And when 'midst fallen London they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own wit...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been! On thy seven hills of yore Thou sat'st a...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night; Heave...
MRS. SARAH JOSEPHA HALE Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes ...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour, ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave, In a vale in the land of Moab, Th...
MRS. CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep, strong, deathless love, sa...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail ...
MRS. ANN WARD RADCLIFFE Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain! Though not f...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll, The ...
MRS. ANN WARD RADCLIFFE I come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes-- Whence is the thrilling magic O...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Fair Venus shines Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a t...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread; Thou hast proud fanes above Thy might...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat, So we lift our trusting eyes From th...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart."
MRS. PAUL M. ELL. She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer And cries, "It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere."
OPHELIA G. BROWNING (MRS. ARTHUR P. ADAMS, MRS. T.E. BURROUGHS) Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science tak...
MRS. MARY BAKER GLOVER EDDY The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I ...
MRS. ELIZABETH ROBINSON MONTAGU (MONTAGUE) It seems to be the fashion nowadays for a girl to behave as much like a man as possible. Well, I won...
MRS. GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY Prevention is better than cure.
MRS. MARY BAKER GLOVER EDDY Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind.
MRS. MARY BAKER GLOVER EDDY Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud Is bright and shining: I...
ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER (MRS. A.L. FELKIN) Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full! This narrow cell was Life's ret...
ANNA JANE VARDILL (MRS. JAMES NIVEN) What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall...
FRANCES ANNE "FANNY" KEMBLE (MRS. BUTLER) His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet, ...
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MRS. FREDERIC J. FAULKS ("THEODOSIA PICKERING GARRISON") Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be; His ...
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DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) With faces like dead lovers who died true.
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DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the cha...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight, And...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born t...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our eart...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) To-morrow is, ah, whose?
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail! Pierce with thy trill the dark, Like a glitt...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark! Thy note is more loud and free Because there...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the tim...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave the...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush! Through the wood's full strains I hear T...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)