Hester Browne quotes

“Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.”
-- Hester Browne

Source : Hester Browne (2009). “The Finishing Touches”, p.405, Simon and Schuster

#Wine Quotes #Special Quotes #Bottles Quotes

“There are many marks of a true lady but I believe that one of them is to walk with her head held high while her world falls apart around her.”
-- Hester Browne

Source : Hester Browne (2007). “The Little Lady Agency”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

#Believe Quotes #Fall Quotes #World Quotes

“It's so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn't going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back.”
-- Hester Browne

Source : Hester Browne (2006). “The Little Lady Agency”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

#Crush Quotes #Nice Quotes #Who You Know Quotes

“I just keep my horrible side well hidden.”
-- Hester Browne

Source : Hester Browne (2012). “The Runaway Princess”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

#Sides Quotes #Horrible Quotes #Wells Quotes

“When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.”

“The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.”

“and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor

“I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.”

“The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.”

“We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.”

“I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.”

“American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.”

“Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.”

“A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.”

Source : Anosh Irani (2013). “The Cripple And His Talismans”, p.26, HarperCollins Publishers India