Quotes

A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point. ~ Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower. ~ Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse Routine is death to heroism. ~ The Man Upstairs by P. G. Wodehouse I hope, or I could not live. ~ The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. ~ The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. ~ The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells "We are standing now on one of the most haunted—and most terribly haunted—spots of the whole world." ~ Secret Worship by Algernon Blackwood He was not necessarily a coward, though, perhaps, a man of untried nerve. ~ Secret Worship by Algernon Blackwood He was among men who cloaked their lives with religion in order to follow their real purposes unseen of men. ~ Secret Worship by Algernon Blackwood It was October, and the air was cool and sharp, woodsmoke and damp moss exquisitely mingled in it with the subtle odours of the pines. ~ Secret Worship by Algernon Blackwood