matron QUOTES

1 " For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam’s front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?

And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable. "

― Vera Nazarian , Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons

2 " The world is a cruel mother, a matron of darkness, selfishness, greed, and misery. For most, their time suckling at her breast is naught but a scramble through stinging, tearing briars before a naked, shameful collapse as the flesh gives out. And yet in the bright eyes of every newborn, there lies a spark, a potential for goodness, the possibility of a life worth living. That spark deserves its chance. And though most of them will turn out to be as worthless as the parents who sired them, while the cruelty of the earth will tell them to release their innocence and join in the drawing of daggers, every now and then one manages to clutch to its beauty and refuses to release it into the dark. "

― Ed McDonald , Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

3 " And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it. "

― Michelle Franklin

4 " Damn you to Lolth's web!" he said. " Don't you dare pretend if doesn't matter to you!" " Why do you care?" Drizzt growled back at him. " No one who has ever made a difference?" " Do you believe that?" " What do you want from me, son of Baenre?" " Just the truth-your truth. You believe that you have never made a difference?" " Perhaps there is no difference to be made," Drizzt replied. " Do not ever say that," Jarlaxle said to him. " Why do you care?" Drizzzt asked. " Because you were the one who escaped," Jarlaxle replied. " Don't you understand? Jarlaxle went on. " I watched you-we all watched you. Whenever a matron mother, or almost any female of Menzoberranzan was about, we spoke your name with vitriol, promising to avenge Lolth and kill you." " But whenever they were not around, the name of Drizzt Do'Urden was spoken with jealousy, often reverence. You do not understand, do you? You don't even recognize the difference you've made to so many of us in Menzoberranzan." " How? Why?" " Because you were the one who escaped!" " You are here with me!" Drizzt argued. " Are you bound to the City of Spiders by anything more than your own designs? By Bregan D'Aerthe?" " I'm not talking about the city, you obstinate fool," Jarlaxle replied, his voice lowering. Again Drizzt looked at him, at a loss. " The heritage," Jarlaxle explained. " The fate. "

5 " Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. The matron doesn't want to repeat her girlhood, she wants to repeat her honeymoon. I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , This Side of Paradise

6 " The matron glanced at the old man and suppressed a smile. “He is absolutely miserable.”

“I enjoy miserable. It gives one a contrast to all the delectabilities of life. But is he housebroken, inpala? He is rather rumpled. He will look well on my ship, but will he wash well? Do professors fray as a general rule? I will not have my ship looking ragged.”

“They do tend to fade after a few years of hard use. "

― Michelle Franklin

7 " Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly, you crank the titanic telescope around to look directly towards the sun, the center of our solar system. "

― Daniel Keidl , Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

8 " Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. The matron doesn't want to repeat her girlhood - she wants to repeat her honeymoon. I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , This Side of Paradise

9 " Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility. "