21 Quotes by Eleanor Herman

In 1891, Princess Louisa of Tuscany married Prince Fredrick Augustus, the heir to to the Saxon throne. The Prince won Louisa over with his gentle manner and striking blond good looks. Yet years later, disenchanted, she wrote in her memoirs, ‘Although every princess doubtless at some time dreams an Ideal Prince Charming, she rarely meets him, and she usually marries some one quite different from the hero of her girlhood’s dreams.

History offers us not a single recorded cell phone conversation between Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan in which His Most Christian Majesty wishes he were a tampon, or photos of Nell Gwynn sunbathing topless in her walled garden near Whitehall Palace. It is most certainly our loss.

But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, ‘To be neutral is rather like someone who lives in the middle of a house and is smoked out from below and drenched with urine from above.

Kat hates men like that, men who are too attractive for their own good-and know it.

The more I see of men,” she grumbled in one, “the more I love dogs.”50.

He rubs his forehead, frustrated, then raises his eyes, one dark brown, one gray-blue – the.

Weakness, he has learned, isn’t in the arm or the leg or the back. Weakness is in the mind.

Her legacy is that of a woman who refused to conform to the misogynistic traditions of her time.

Questions are answered not when you want an answer but when the time for answers is right.