Quotes

"I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence." ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal seas. ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens Mr. Arthur Clennam took up his hat and buttoned his coat, and walked out. In the country, the rain would have developed a thousand fresh scents, and every drop would have had its bright association with some beautiful form of growth or life. In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt-stained, wretched addition to the gutters. ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens It came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort. ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens "Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman." ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens Beneath all manner of kindness and consideration for each other--for their good taste, at all events, had never given way--this tragedy of a woman, who wanted to be loved, slowly killing the power of loving her in the man, had gone on year after year. ~ Fraternity by John Galsworthy Hilary was no young person, like his niece or Martin, to whom everything seemed simple; nor was he an old person like their grandfather, for whom life had lost its complications. ~ Fraternity by John Galsworthy There is left in every man something of the primeval love of stalking. ~ Fraternity by John Galsworthy "The human heart," he murmured, "is the tomb of many feelings." ~ Fraternity by John Galsworthy