Richelle Mead Quotes

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the supernatural, I don't believe in anything! And I'm terribly cynical, and somehow or other, all three of my films and much of my television work has been rather sentimental, and 'heartwarming'.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

Night, a more perfect day.

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

We are perfect in our imperfection.

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time?

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

The most interesting people are never perfect.