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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d490529 | I like very few people nowadays; in fact, the number of persons whom I cordially dislike increases almost hourly. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| a80ad54 | I am shocked-- excessively shocked! Your father would have been very glad to have left his ring to Martin, let me tell you, only he thought it not right to leave it away from the heir!" "Was it indeed a personal bequest?" inquired Gervase, interested. "That certainly must be held to enhance its value. It becomes, in fact, a curio, for it must be quite the only piece of unentailed property which my father did bequeathe to me. I shall put it .. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 7a4443a | He shut the door, and stood looking across the room at her. 'Cressy, what did you mean when you told that harridan that your affections were engaged?' The colour deepened a little in her cheeks, but she replied lightly: 'Well, she talked so much like someone in a bad play that I became carried away myself! Besides, I had to say something to convince her! I could see she didn't quite believe me when I said I wasn't going to marry your brothe.. | regency romance | Georgette Heyer | |
| f77ed49 | Upon her butler's announcing the arrival of Mr Ravenscar, Lady Mablethorpe, who had been dozing over a novel from the Circulating Library, sat up with a jerk, and raised a hand to her dishevelled cap. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 0f4c19e | Not but what he deserves a sharp lesson! He very nearly made me drop these unfortunate kittens, mauling me about in that detestable way! There is *nothing* I dislike more!' 'I agree that he needs a lesson. I should rather suppose it to have been his first attempt. He ought, of course, to have got rid of the livestock,' said Damerel, taking the basket out of her hand, and setting it down, 'for while you were preoccupied with their safety wha.. | rebuffed woo | Georgette Heyer | |
| 4ecba04 | Do you know, it has of late become an ambition of mine to hear my name on your lips instead of my title | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 908d312 | I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 39a18ed | Who are you? Or should I first present myself to you? I'm Damerel, you know.' 'Yes, so I supposed, at the outset of our delightful acquaintance. Later, of course, I was sure of it.' 'Oh, oh - ! My reputation, Iago, my reputation!' he exclaimed, laughing again. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| e2093eb | Your solicitude overwhelms me,' returned Ravenscar. 'I own I had expected at least a loaf of bread and a jug of water in my dungeon - until I learned, of course, that you had some idea of starving me to death. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 39576d4 | Be as vigilantly on guard against translating such a sentence into the passive voice as you would against committing murder. | translation | Jay Rubin | |
| ed017ce | It's all right!" Simon said hoarsely. Hastily he cleared his throat and put his shoulders back, though it was hard to recover dignity in pajamas." | Susan Cooper | ||
| 2a9b92b | But the slice-of-life novel is really not so much a world apart as an interlude - like the conference or the film set, the holiday hotel or the voyage by sea or air. You enter it, you live there for a while, you leave again. Perhaps it will alter you; usually it will not. I suspect that the book which takes you into a world apart must also _trouble_ you, at least a little. And the troubling stays with you, like the grit in the oyster, and a.. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 217d1ae | The wind on the headland whined softly round them, and although, as they watched, Great-Uncle Merry's expression did not change, they suddenly knew that some enormous emotion was flooding through him. Like an electric current it tingled the air, exciting and frightening at the same time; though they could not understand what it was. | Susan Cooper | ||
| ff15dd6 | It says, loving doesn't change just because someone isn't there, or because time gets in the way, or even death. It's always with you, keeping you safe, it won't ever leave you. | Susan Cooper | ||
| 82efb2b | For him, Halloween was not All Hallows Eve | Susan Cooper | ||
| b31722f | First of all, you have heard me talk of Logres. It was the old name for this country, thousands of years ago; in the old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle goes on all round us all the time, like two armies fighting. And sometimes one of them seems to be winning and sometimes the other, but neither has ever triumphed altogether. Nor ever will," he added softly to himself, "for.. | Susan Cooper | ||
| e1baaee | The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world. | passion | Susan Cooper | |
| 6c0d6f7 | They had nothing to eat but Ryan's food, and they ate little of that because it was so dry, but it seemed to sustain them. Their greatest worry was water. Though they drank only a little each day, Westerly's flask was empty and the bottle in Cally's pack now only half-full. "I wish I was a camel," Cally said. Westerly said, "I wouldn't want to spend this much time with a girl who looked like a camel." She tried to laugh, but her tongue fel.. | Susan Cooper | ||
| a18c239 | He was woken by music. It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. There was in this music so much of the deepest enchantment of all his dreams and imaginings that he woke smiling in pure happiness at the sound. | music | Susan Cooper | |
| fc562a4 | We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves: | George Eliot | ||
| e97a4d7 | Io so una cosa per certo: che un tempo oggettivo esiste, ma che esiste anche quello soggettivo, quello che si porta sull'interno polso, proprio accanto alle pulsazioni cardiache. E questo tempo personale, che e poi anche quello autentico, si misura in funzione del nostro rapporto con i ricordi. | tempo | Julian Barnes | |
| 0fa11aa | between the principle and its implementation often lay some anguish. | Julian Barnes | ||
| 2873309 | Part of love is preparing for death... Afterwards comes the madness. And then the loneliness... [People say] you'll come out of it... And you do come out of it, that's true. But you don't come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the Downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil slick; you are tarred and feathered for life. | Julian Barnes | ||
| baecc8c | Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 2d31f66 | The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter; the rain may enter--but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 535dbaa | So lethal was the disease that cases were known of persons going to bed well and dying before they woke, of doctors catching the illness at a bedside and dying before the patient. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 1ef0e36 | The Battle of the Marne was one of the decisive battles of the world not because it determined that Germany would ultimately lose or the Allies ultimately win the war but because it determined that the war would go on. There was no looking back, Joffre told the soldiers on the eve. Afterward there was no turning back. The nations were caught in a trap, a trap made during the first thirty days out of battles that failed to be decisive, a tra.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 6126915 | What is it about this book--essentially a military history of the first month of the First World War--which gives it its stamp and has created its enormous reputation? Four qualities stand out: a wealth of vivid detail which keeps the reader immersed in events, almost as an eyewitness; a prose style which is transparently clear, intelligent, controlled and witty; a cool detachment of moral judgment--Mrs. Tuchman is never preachy or reproach.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| eefa4a8 | Without a country, you are the basket of humanity. | distortion nationalism | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| d03b080 | Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly. | humility status-quo | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 1a1d8ac | One by one, members of the Commons, speaking in turn at a lectern in the center of the chamber, added their charges and complaints. The King's councillors, they said, had grown rich at the cost of impoverishing the nation; they had deceived the King and wasted his revenues, causing the repeated demands for fresh subsidies. The people were too poor and feeble to endure further taxation. Let Parliament discuss instead how the King might maint.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| a8d6ca2 | The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. - Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed | focus self-discipline silence | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 85ee0ea | The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost. | leadership | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 8271ee7 | Thereafter the red edges of war spread over another half of the world. Turkey's neighbors, Bulgaria, Rumania, Italy, and Greece, were eventually drawn in. Thereafter, with her exit to the Mediterranean closed, Russia was left dependent on Archangel, icebound half the year, and on Vladivostok, 8,000 miles from the battlefront. With the Black Sea closed, her exports dropped by 98 per cent and her imports by 95 per cent. The cutting off of Rus.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 7e98ff1 | To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions, and Michel duly paid for his clairvoyance. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 3fa612a | The follies that produced the loss of American virtue following Vietnam begin with continuous overreacting, in the invention of endangered national security, the invention of vital interest, the invention of a commitment which rapidly assumed a life of its own . | polarization | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 95dd889 | They were twelve days in which world history wavered between two courses and the Germans came so close to victory that they reached out and touched it between the Aisne and the Marne. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 8d43bb4 | If it was not intended as a veto, then it must have been intended for commanders to interpret as they saw fit, which brings the matter to that melting point of warfare--the temperament of the individual commander. When the moment of live ammunition approaches, the moment to which all his professional training has been directed, when the lives of men under him, the issue of the combat, even the fate of a campaign may depend upon his decision.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| e31a83a | An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust. In creating a climate for pessimism, the Black Death was the equivalent of the First World War, although it took fifty years for the psychological effects to develop. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 29070a2 | Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." This in essence was to be the Burke thesis: that principle does not have to be demonstrated when the demonstration is inexpedient." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| d3f6839 | also usually employed one or more resident physicians, barbers, priests, painters, musicians, minstrels, secretaries and copyists, an astrologer, a jester, and a dwarf, besides pages and squires. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| b1e0de3 | That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis. If the Jews were unholy, then killing and looting them was holy work. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| a38e1ac | Not a passing phenomenon nor an external force, the companies had become a way of life, a part of society itself, used and joined by its rulers even as they struggled to throw them off. They ate at society from within like Erysichthon, the "tearer up of earth," who, having destroyed the trees in the sacred grove of Demeter, was cursed by the goddess with an insatiable appetite and finally devoured himself attempting to satisfy his hunger. D.. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| dab593c | The wave of insurrection passed, leaving little change in the condition of the working class. Inertia in the scales of history weighs more heavily than change. Four hundred years were to elapse before the descendants of the Maillotins seized the Bastille. | Barbara W. Tuchman |