Quotes

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy. ~ Romany of the Snows by Gilbert Parker "Every shot that kills ricochets." ~ Romany of the Snows by Gilbert Parker They had courage; without which, men are as the standing straw in an unreaped field in winter; but having become like the hooded pine, that keepeth green in frost, and hath the bounding blood in all its icy branches. ~ Pierre And His People by Gilbert Parker She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition. ~ Pierre And His People by Gilbert Parker "You tell him I got kind of a notion he was pushed into this thing by circumstances, and tell him I've lived long enough to know that circumstances can beat the best of us." ~ Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington "We do keep looking ahead to things as if they'd finish something, but when we get TO them, they don't finish anything. They're just part of going on." ~ Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington The human brain is capable of only one strong emotion at a time, and if it be filled with curiosity or scientific enthusiasm, there is no room for fear. ~ The Brown Hand by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The old couple had come round to that tragic imitation of the dawn of life when husband and wife, having lost or scattered all those who were their intimates, find themselves face to face and alone once more, their work done, and the end nearing fast. Those who have reached that stage in sweetness and love, who can change their winter into a gentle, Indian summer, have come as victors through the ordeal of life. ~ The Brown Hand by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle There was a lady at Santarem--but my lips are sealed. It is the part of a gallant man to say nothing, though he may indicate that he could say a great deal. ~ The Crime of The Brigadier by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Chance is a woman, my friends, and she has her eye always upon a gallant Hussar. ~ The Crime of The Brigadier by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle