Nora Roberts Quotes

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.

I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.

The good thing about India, and the good thing about Melbourne, is that it's very, very hard on this planet of ours to find two places that are almost diametrically opposed.

'Hanna' has grown up in mother nature's beautiful wilderness and that's what she knows. So for someone like me who has always had a life in the city, it was a chance to look beyond social conventions.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

Is not light grander than fire?

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

We are shoulder to shoulder due to the size of the cab, and if Gratton is made of flour and potatoes, Sean is made of stone and driftwood and possibly those prickly anemones that sometimes wash up on shore.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give." He's honest. "You lie all the time." He's loving. "You don't know how to love.

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.

Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.

He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.

How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?

A flower is an educated weed.

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

The first weeks in the US, I was asking, ‘Where is my food?’

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.