Superficially so like them all, and so eager to outdo them in detachment and adaptability, ridiculing the prejudices he had shaken off, and the people to whom he belonged, he still kept, under his eas...
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
It was difficult to define her beyond saying that she seemed to exist only as a hostess, not so much from any exaggerated instinct of hospitality as because she could not sustain life except in a crow...
Emigrate! As if a gentleman could abandon his own country! One could no more do that than one could roll up one's sleeves and go down into the muck.
Bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate...happens to me on a daily basis!
In any really good subject one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
ألا ترى أن محافظة المرء على حريته الفكرية، وحماية قدرته على الإبداع أو النقد المستقل يستحقان التضحية؟ لهذا السبب هجرت الصحافة و التجأت إلى أعمال رتيبة كالتدريس و أعمال السكرتارية. صحيح أن فيها كدح وشق...
О, благословенная нравственная свобода, которую дарует богатство!
Вдъхващият трепет продукт на обществената система, към която принадлежеше и той и в която вярваше, девойката, която не знаеше нищо и очакваше всичко, го гледаше като непозната през познатите черти на...
Marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.
Even in his unhappiest moments field and sky spoke to him with a deep and powerful persuasion.
You never did ask each other anything, did you? And you never told each other anything. You just sat and watched each other, and guessed at what was going on underneath. A deaf-and-dumb asylum, in fac...
There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability which the long Starkfield winters had not yet extinguished. By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was wa...
The stage was thought to have a shaping influence, for the most part a bad one, on youthful character and conduct in much the way television is thought to have in our day.
The quiet, almost passive young woman struck him as exactly the kind of person to whom things were bound to happen, no matter how much she shrank from them and went out of her way to avoid them.
The party was made up of what Mrs. Trenor called poky people—her generic name for persons who did not play bridge—and, it being her habit to group all such obstructionists in one class, she usually in...
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn t...
She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed.
Real civilisation means an education that extends to the whole of life, in contradistinction to that of school or college: it means an education that forms speech, forms manners, forms taste, forms id...