Samuel Hopkins Adams > Quotes

“Oh, I wuh—wuh—wish I were duh—duh—dead!" mourned Miss Cole with violence. Gloria Greene dropped the typed sheets which she had been studying and rose from her chair. She looked down at the lumpy, lax figure of helpless, petulant rebellion before her. "Oh, you do, do you?" she remarked pensively. "Yes; I do!" "So do most people at one time or another," was Miss Greene's philosophical commentary upon this. "Not you," declared Darcy, glancing up at the vivid face above her resentfully. "I'll bet you've never known what it is to feel that way in your life." "Oh, I'm too busy for such nonsense," returned Gloria in her serene and caressing voice. Indeed,”
― Samuel Hopkins Adams, Wanted: A Husband / A Novel

“the ceremony proceeded, its gross symbolism of sex worship, broad paganism, and underlying acceptance of women's slavery as a divine system, thinly cloaked in the severe beauty of the words; and Dee Fentriss was Mrs. T. Jameson James.”
― Samuel Hopkins Adams, Flaming Youth

“As it is a professedly denominational school she has, of course, specialised or been specialised upon as a churchwoman. A very sound and correct churchwoman, but not much of a Godwoman.”
― Samuel Hopkins Adams, Flaming Youth

“hastily. "What! Already?" "I've changed my mind," was her calm announcement. "I've decided that you're not my husband." "Wedded and Parted—by Bertha M. Clay. Who's the Bertha M. that's done this thing to me: "I”
― Samuel Hopkins Adams, Wanted: A Husband / A Novel

“By no stretch of charity could he be called an ornament to the human species.”
― Samuel Hopkins Adams, Night Bus