46 quotes found
“The back of my hand to guilt.”
“I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.”
“Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.”
“The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.”
“Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...”
“Stephen had been put to sleep in his usual room, far from children and noise, away in that corner of the house which looked down to the orchard and the bowling-green, and in spite of his long absen...”
“I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.”
“Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.”
“You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.”
“Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It wo...”
“He had been quite unprepared for this particular blow, striking under every conceivable kind of armour, and for some minutes he could hardly bear the pain, but sat there blinking in the sun. 'Chris...”
“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the sloth was amazed by the change; it shunned the deck a...”
“Stephen nodded. 'Tell me,' he said, in a low voice, some moments later. 'Were I under naval discipline, could that fellow have me whipped?'He nodded towards Mr Marshall. 'The master?' cried Jack, w...”
“Oh, as far as unsexing is concerned, who are we to throw stones? With us any girl that cannot find a husband is unsexed. If she is very high or very low she may go her own way, with the risks entai...”
“There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.”
“A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being in a hundred simultaneous forms, with a thousand associations, and ...”
“The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.”
“They played, not beautifully but deep, ignoring their often discordant strings and striking right into the heart of the music they knew best, the true notes acting as their milestones. On the poop ...”
“Sir, said Stephen, I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowled...”
“The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.”
“How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck”
“Valuable and ingenious he might be, thought Jack, fixing him with his glass, but false he was too, and perjured. He had voluntarily sworn to have no truck with vampires, and here, attached to his b...”
