Quotes

LeRoy explained her attitude in the matter and her strange behavior in the west-side house by saying she had thought too much and acted too little. ~ The Triumph of the Egg (Seeds) by Sherwood Anderson His life has been spent in devotion to ideas. The passions of his brain have consumed the passions of his body. ~ The Triumph of the Egg (Seeds) by Sherwood Anderson "The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines." ~ The Triumph of the Egg (Seeds) by Sherwood Anderson "A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms." ~ The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy "Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle." ~ The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy "Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught." ~ The Ambassadors by Henry James "I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination." ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James "You wanted to look at life for yourself--but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional!" ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James "Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself." ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James