“Mr. Parkes, finding himself in the position of having got into metaphysics without exactly seeing his way out of them, stammered forth an apology and retreated from the argument.”
― Barnaby Rudge
― Barnaby Rudge
“It would come dearer...for when a person comes to grind off poetry night after night, it is but right that he should expect to be paid for its weakening effect upon his mind.”
― Our Mutual Friend
― Our Mutual Friend
“Cultivate a superiority to reason, and see how you pare the claws of all the sensible people when they try to scratch you for your own good!”
― The Moonstone
― The Moonstone
“All the six hundred and fifty-eight
members in the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; who are strong lovers no doubt, but of their country only, which makes all the difference; for in a passion of that
kind (which is not always returned), it is the custom to use as many words as possible, and express nothing whatever.”
― Martin Chuzzlewit
members in the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; who are strong lovers no doubt, but of their country only, which makes all the difference; for in a passion of that
kind (which is not always returned), it is the custom to use as many words as possible, and express nothing whatever.”
― Martin Chuzzlewit
“That detestable product of the folly of our fore-fathers—a feather-bed.”
― The Moonstone ; Wilkie Collins
― The Moonstone ; Wilkie Collins
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