Quotes

"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;" ~ King John by William Shakespeare "Bell, book, and candle, shall not drive me back,
When gold and silver becks me to come on." ~ King John by William Shakespeare She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company. ~ The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Grace Stepney's mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory. ~ The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. ~ The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent. ~ The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring. ~ Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires. ~ Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Mrs. Varden was a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper--a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens