Astrid Aillume's humor

Q: "Have you been taught to keep learning for life?"

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Cracking a case is like salty liquorice. Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive. --Astrid Aillume

Detective Astrid Aillume from Denmark is Back

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. -- Charlie Chaplin

Standing Alone at Dawn: Dickinson's Words in Art

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. -- Emily Dickinson

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. -- Jane Austen

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. -- Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. -- Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

By Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Emily Dickinson

Tell all the truth but tell it slant —

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. -- Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice (by Jane Austen)

Some Are Born Great, Some Achieve Greatness, And Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them. ― William Shakespeare

Her breast is fit for pearls -- Emily Dickinson

Her breast is fit for pearls,

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, and Eternity in an hour. -- William Blake

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. -- William Shakespeare

What's your favorite Shakespeare quote?

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. -- Emily Dickinson

What's your favorite Emily Dickinson quote?