“Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.”
― The Moviegoer
― The Moviegoer
“If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the best of each generation, while time curbed the artist's pride and the Philistine's vulgarity, and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.”
― Orient Express
― Orient Express
“She was proud of her power of prophecy, though she had not yet lived to see any of her prophecies fulfilled.”
― Orient Express
― Orient Express
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