The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.
The world is a beautiful and terrible place. Deeds of horror are committed every minute and in the end those we love die. If the screams of all earth’s living creatures were one scream of pain, surely...
The emotion he felt towards her was as mysterious as it was irrational. He needed to understand it, to define its nature, to analyse what he knew was beyond analysis. But some things now he did know,...
Success in moderation was no doubt better for the character than failure, but too much of it and he would lose his cutting edge.
History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is.Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse...
Delightful and sensitive boys have a habit of growing into insensitive and far-from-agreeable men.
Charlotte had not been the eldest of a large family without acquiring some skill in the management of male delinquencies and her method with her husband was ingenious. She consistently congratulated h...
A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
A court of law is not constituted to establish the truth.
Miss Bingley was particularly anxious at the time not to leave the capital. Her pursuit of a widowed peer of great wealth was entering a most hopeful phase. Admittedly without his peerage and his mone...
¿Recuerdas aquella frase del Eclesiastés en que se afirma que es mejor un perro vivo que un león muerto? Langton murmuró: —«Los vivos saben al menos que han de morir, pero los muertos no saben nada; n...
Were. It was as pointlessly presumptuous to try to change them as it was impertinent to pity them.
Ridiculous,
Pedimented doors to right and left, an oil painting of the
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He had felt for the Gearings. But he had made a promise and it was one he knew he would have to
[Mr. Collins] began by stating that he could find no words to express his shock and abhorrence, and then proceeded to find a great number, few of them appropriate and none of them helpful.
What is there to be frightened of? We shall be dealing only with men.
We were polluting the planet with our numbers; if we were breeding less it was to be welcomed.