Quotes of: Significant-other Keyword

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories

Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.

The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

My Father's Tears and Other Stories

Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.

A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world.

The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays

What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.

Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.

No Exit and Three Other Plays

Had I crossed the pass Supported by a stick, I would have spared myself The fall from the horse.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself The beautiful pears ripe in his garden.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Never let yourself be swayed by emotions,' her mother had said. 'Emotions are fleeting. They come and go. But reality stays with you forever.

The Other Mr. Darcy

We made eyes at each other, and then we made love. We also made other things too, like meatloaf.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

Of Love and Other Demons

The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet. "May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart.

Of Love and Other Demons

I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are not great enough for God to be concerned with us.

Of Love and Other Demons

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Leaves of Grass

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Leaves of Grass

People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

Last Night I Sang to the Monster

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems