For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as ...a two-edged sword.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-e...dged sword in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute upon them the judgment written.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Edith: This complete loveliness will fade. And we shall forget what it was like. Edward: Edith, don't.... Edith: Oh, it's bound to. Just a few years and the gilt wears off the gingerbread. Edward: Darling, answer me one thing truthfully. Have you ever seen gingerbread with gilt on it? Edith: [laughing] Fool! Edward: Then the whole argument is disposed of.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not honey, not the sweet stain on the lips and teeth:... not honey, not the deep plunge of soft belly and the clinging of the gold-edged pollen-dusted feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moment when she crawled out onto the back of the open limousine in which her husband had been murdered was the first and last ...time the American people would see Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis crawl.... She was the last great private public figure in this country. In a time of gilt and glitz and perpetual revelation, she was perpetually associated with that thing so difficult to describe yet so simple to recognize, the apotheosis of dignity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderou...s alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are but warriors for the working day. Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirched... With rainy marching in the painful field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »