Pedimented doors to right and left, an oil painting of the
He had felt for the Gearings. But he had made a promise and it was one he knew he would have to
Unmarried, solitary, unsociable; why should I expect my writing to be any more successful than my life?
The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
Success in moderation was no doubt better for the character than failure, but too much of it and he would lose his cutting edge.
I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happi...
I can still picture the two sisters sitting together on the terrace, well wrapped up against the chill, one with her terminal cancer, the other with her cardiac asthma and arthritis, envy and resentme...
History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
A successful murder depends on knowing your victim,
O’clock
Had found it difficult to sleep since my husband had been killed, and now I lay rigid under the canopy of the four-poster re-living the extraordinary day, piecing together the anomalies, the small inc...
What is there to be frightened of? We shall be dealing only with men.
We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.
There are few activities so agreeable as spending a friend's money to your own satisfaction and his benefit.
Theo awoke to a weight of vague unease, not heavy enough to be called anxiety, but a mild unfocused depression, like the last tatters of an unremembered but disagreeable dream.
The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.
The cultured cop! I thought they were peculiar to detective novels.
One of her parlour borders, Miss Harriet Smith, married a local farmer, Robert Martin, and is very happily settled. They have three daughters and a son, but the doctor has told her it is unlikely that...
It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.
By 1803, therefore, Mrs Bennet could be regarded as a happy woman so far as her nature allowed and had even been known to sit through a four-course dinner in the presence of Sir William and Lady Lucas...