Tamora Pierce Quotes

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

There are many projects that I would have loved to be a part of, but I was not high-profile enough, or I had the wrong look. That's just something you have to expect.

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

All shall equal be. The Earl, the Marquis, and the Dook, The Groom, the Butler, and the Cook, The Aristocrat who banks with Coutts, The Aristocrat who cleans the boots.

To detail the real evils of aristocracy, they must be seen in Europe.

There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents;... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy.

There is no distinction of persons among them, and deference is shown to merit rather than to noble blood.

To their entertainments princes invite only the nobility; but when they meet with misfortune, they invite also citizens.

The great families have their privileges.

I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am.

I am offended by people who feel that they're entitled to something just because of their last name.

Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.

I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.

We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.