America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy - and wont cross the street to vote in a national election.
Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
You were not acquainted with my father, Mr Morville. I have often been sorry that you were not, for you would have been excessively pleased with one another. My father was a great reader, though not,...
Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?
The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as the stripper soundtrack:When their mother stopped walking the soundtrack stopped. If she took a single st...
She seems somewhat morose and out of sorts. Do you beat her often?''I must admit that I do not.''There is the answer! Beat her well; beat her often! It will bring roses to her cheeks! There is nothing...
Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
Oliver, calm down! said Fred, looking slightly alarmed. We’re taking Hufflepuff very seriously. .
Now-what’s our game plan? Coach Hedge belched. He’d already had three espressos and a plate of doughnuts, along with two napkins and another flower from the vase on the table. He would’ve eaten the si...
Nothing more likely,said Hannasyde. I've got to try and rattle him.It's him that'll do the rattling,said the Sergeant darkly. he's the nearest thing to a snake I've seen outside of the Zoo.
No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.
More of your conversation would infect my brain.
Monseigneur, I have killed you! You are dead! You are dead!You display an unseemly joy, he remarked. I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty.
Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:'Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!' His lordship blenched;...
It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is created by hundreds of small furry things treading very carefully in the ho...
He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.
An hour ago Cutwell had thumbed through the index of The Monster Fun Grimoire and had cautiously assembled a number of common household ingredients and put a match to them.Funny thing about eyebrows,...
Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.