Quotes about Quote

Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper.

She says, he is a great soul.—A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in!" said Mrs. Cadwallader.

The cubic feet of oxygen yearly swallowed by a full-grown man — what a shudder they might have created in some Middlemarch circles! 'Oxygen! nobody knows what that may be — is it any wonder the cholera has got to Dantzic?

character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendoes.

She controlled herself by the help of an inward defiance, and without other sign of emotion than this lip-paleness turned to her play. But Deronda's gaze seemed to have acted as an evil eye. Her stake was gone.

Let the music which can take the possession of our frame and fill the air with joy for us, sound once more - what does it signify that we heard it found fault with in its absence?

A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.

Our deeds travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are.

I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

If you want a job, do what I did: work for other people for 50 years; but the odds of you getting swallowed up by the blasphemous godless, decadent, deadly spirit of today's show business are thousands to one.