17 quotes found
“Her mask gave no sign of how this affected her.”
“Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends.”
“Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.”
“Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will”
“I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.”
“Most people however much they might deny it had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.”
“..if you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think about is cigarettes. It seems logical enough to me that if you tell a person he ca...”
“I raised my hand and asked if God was a spirit. And he said yes, He was. So I asked if it was right that a spirit was different from a person because it didn't have a body, wasn't material. And whe...”
“Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.”
“And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.”
“We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them....Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid l...”
“And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.”
“I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after a...”
“She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.”
“You really love to gossip, don't you? he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine.Yes, I suppose I do, she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. You think that's why I love rea...”
“Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.”
“You really love to gossip, don't you?” he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine.“Yes, I suppose I do,” she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. “You think that's why I love...”
