“What could she do with a man who had no ideas of his own as to what he ought to do with himself?”
― The Palliser Novels: Complete Series - All 6 Books in One Edition: Enriched edition. Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister & The Duke's Children
― The Palliser Novels: Complete Series - All 6 Books in One Edition: Enriched edition. Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister & The Duke's Children
“I tell you, if the whole world, and everybody in it, was as weak and frightened as I am now, and as unsure of everything – unsure of themselves, their place in the scheme of things – it’d be a far better place. No more enthusiasts, no heroic deeds, no commitment, just general all-round pusillanimity! I’d be content to live on this earth for all eternity, if somebody’d just show me a corner of it where there’s not always room for heroics. ‘General pusillanimity’ – yes, that’s our remedy for all ills...”
― Moskva-Petushki
― Moskva-Petushki
“Matrimony never seemed to me to be very charming, and upon my word it does not become more alluring by what I find at Loughlinter.”
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
“A woman who is alone in the world is ever regarded with suspicion.”
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
“Is it not astonishing that the price generally put upon any article by the world is that which the owner puts on it?—and that this is specially true of a man's own self?”
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
― Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
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