I hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue.
His masculinity was only too apparent
For some reason his parents had a low opinion of his common sense.
Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.
That was Evelyn’s weakness. She was too kind, and too truthful. Both, I have found, are inconvenient character traits.
Ten years of Ramses had convinced me that my inability to have more children was not, as I had first viewed it, a sad disappointment, but rather a kindly disposition of all-knowing Providence. One Ram...
I believe you would square off at Satan if he came around and inconvenienced you!
Fists and rocks and clubs can do a limited amount of harm, but a gun is entirely different. It makes a weak man feel like a hero and a strong man feel as if he is immortal, and it removes the last inh...
Emerson bent a tender look upon his son and heir. ‘Very well, Ramses; Papa will find you all the dead bodies you want.
As our patient beasts plodded across the sand, I allowed Emerson to remain a few feet ahead, a position he much enjoys and seldom obtains. I could see by the arrogant set of his shoulders that he fanc...
When, oh when will justice and reason prevail, and Woman descend from the pedestal on which Man has placed her (in order to prevent her from doing anything except standing perfectly still) and take he...
Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.
I felt obligated by friendship as well as duty to make certain they were comfortably housed. Since men seem to measure comfort by the degree of dirt and confusion that prevails, I deduced that they we...
The man had no more romance in his soul than a codfish.
People of that sort seldom fall ill; they are too busy pretending to be ill.
Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
Romanticism is not a quality I despise, but it is inconvenient in a butler.)