Courage is about the most useful thing in an artist's outfit.
But she had the awful gift of omnipresence, of exercising her influence from a distance; so that while the old family friends and visitors at Longlands said, It's wonderful, now tactful Blanche is - h...
But it was one of those moments when neither seemed to speak deliberately, when an indwelling voice in each called to the other across unsounded depths of feeling.
But in another moment she seemed to have descended from her womanly eminence to helpless and timorous girlhood; and he understood that her courage and initiative were all for others, and that she had...
But how could she trust herself to keep her footing? She knew the strength of the opposing impulses-she could feel the countless hands of habit dragging her back into some fresh compromise with fate.
But his marital education had since made strides, and he now knew that a disregard for money may imply not the willingness to get on without it but merely a blind confidence that it will somehow be pr...
But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives forma...
And suddenly, as he noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonized herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate.
Замыслы должны созреть, - новые впечатления редко приносят немедленный результат. (Грейс Фалмер - Сюзи Бранч)
Если человек отказывает себе во всем, это отравляет его здоровье и характер. (Элли Вандерлин - Сюзи Бранч)
В чьей манере было изъясняться откровенно, когда не было причин, житейских или денежных, о чем то умалчивать. (О Сюзи Бранч)
Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.
Все те незнакомцы и незнакомки, которым она улыбалась мимоходом, на которых оглядывалась с завистью, были свободны от потребностей, рабой которых была она, и они не поняли бы, о чем она толкует, если...
No doubt the rabbit always thinks it is fascinating the anaconda.
You are an artist and I happen to be the bit of colour you are using today. It's a part of your cleverness to be able to produce premeditated effects extemporaneously.
Will-power, he saw, was not a thing one could suddenly decree oneself to possess. It must be built up imperceptibly and laboriously out of a succession of small efforts to meet definite objects, out o...
They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars
These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason...
The words came out slowly, haltingly, as if they had cost him a struggle. Nan had noticed before now that anger was too big a garment for him; it always hung on him in uneasy folds.