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When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost!” they said, and cried out in fear.
- Matthew 14:26
It passed through his mind that if he missed this chance of talking to Katharine, he would have to face an enraged ghost, when he was alone in his room again, demanding an explanation of his cowardly indecision. It was better, on the whole, to risk present discomfiture than to waste an evening bandying excuses and constructing impossible scenes with this uncompromising section of himself.
- Virginia Woolf
I am the Ghost of Christmas Present.
- Charles Dickens
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.
- Charles Dickens
"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past." "Long past?" inquired Scrooge…. "No. Your past."
- Charles Dickens
An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
- Charles Dickens
You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
- Charles Dickens
a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after
- Charles Dickens
I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C.D. December, 1843.
- Charles Dickens
Frank Ocean is super dope! He's like a ghost. He's, like, not really real. I didn't think he was real until I met him.
- Lil Yachty
But there is no such thing, sir, as a ghost, and I guess the laws of Nature are not going to be suspended for the British aristocracy
- Oscar Wilde
Madness, you say? Exactly! A sober church never does any good. At this hour we need men drunk with the Holy Ghost.
- Leonard Ravenhill