Author: Laurie King

Cites

• John Webster (1)
  • IN: A Grave Talent (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Other sins only speak, murder shrieks out
    FROM: The Duchess of Malfi, (1623), Play, UK
• Francis Bacon (1)
  • IN: A Grave Talent (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other
    FROM: Of Death, (1612), Essay, UK
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Birth of a new moon (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: O Power, O Wisdom, O Goodness inexplicable; Support me, Teach me, and be my Governor, That never my living be to thee despicable… Grant well that I may my intent fulfill.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Bible (3)
  • IN: A Letter of Mary (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... I would terrify you by letters.
    FROM: Bible, The Second Letter of Paul to the Corinthians, Corinthians 10:9, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: O Jerusalem (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning.
    FROM: Bible, PSALM 137:5, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Justice Hall (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: LET JUSTICE ROLL DOWN LIKE THE WATERS, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE AN EVERFLOWING STREAM.
    FROM: Bible, Amos 5:24, (-165), Bible, NULL
• John Adams (1)
  • IN: A Letter of Mary (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
    FROM: Journal, (1760), Journal, US
• John Knox (1)
  • IN: A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For who can deny that it is repugnant to nature that the blind shall be appointed to lead and conduct such as do see, that the weak, the sick and the impotent shall nourish and keep the whole and the strong, and, finally, that the foolish, mad, and frenetic shall govern the discrete and give counsel to such as be sober of mind? And such be all women compared to man in bearing of authority.
    FROM: The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, (1558), Book, UK
• John Chrysostom (1)
  • IN: A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Womankind is imprudent and soft or flexible. Imprudent because she cannot consider with wisdom and reason the things she hears and sees; and soft she is because she is easily bowed.
    FROM: The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women, (1558), Fictional, Greece
• Sabine Baring-Gould (1)
  • IN: The Moor (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I obtained a holiday from my books, I mounted my pony and made for the moor.
    FROM: A Book of Dartmoor, (1900), Book, UK
• Jerome (1)
  • IN: O Jerusalem (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I began to learn another alphabet, and meditate on words that hissed and words that gasped.
    FROM: Vita S. Paulii, TRANS. HELEN WADDELL (The Desert Fathers), (1936), Book, NULL