Self Descriptive Quotes

“A young man who plays his part in society by looking on in green spectacles, and listening with a sickly smile, may be a prodigy of intellect and a mine of virtue, but he is hardly, perhaps, the right sort of man to have at a picnic.”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

“I'm a Joker. Dangerous and silly at the same time.”
― Nuno Roque

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading a newspaper or chatting with the girls she worked with all day. And maybe she always read like that--with an air of having surrendered totally to a spell.”
― James Hilton, Time and Time Again