Minerva Quotes

Minerva Quote of the day

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.

I liked that Larry King didn't know who Minerva was.

O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.

I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.

Jesus. Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Delilah, Jezebel, Salome, Judith, Eve. Trouble, every last one. Add Minerva Highwood to the list.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

I think so, ' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.