The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender
There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.
I think I will always have a place. I don't think I have to rule or reign but there's a place for me.
Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.
Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns
To friends! Life belongs to those who love, and where love reigns is man truly king!
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
The storm stops at the door. Love reigns, peace dwells.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race.
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.
One day Jesus is going to come back and reign with perfect justice. There will be no questions about what's happened. There will be perfect justice and I look forward to that day.
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.
The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
I let them think I did that" said Jace "My reign of terror continues
