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G K Chesterton: He crams with...

G K Chesterton: He crams with...

He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands
Why, he laughs...

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G K Chesterton: All architecture is...

G K Chesterton: All architecture is...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of...

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G K Chesterton: Smile at us,...

G K Chesterton: Smile at us,...

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. For we are the people of England, that never have spoken...

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G K Chesterton: Brave men are...

G K Chesterton: Brave men are...

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the...

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E M Forster: Only connect!...

E M Forster: Only connect!...

Only connect!

Source: Howards End, epigraph.
-- E M Forster, (Jan 1 1879-1970),...

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Edward Dahlberg: No people require...

Edward Dahlberg: No people require...

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always...

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Charles Dickens: In this life...

Charles Dickens: In this life...

In this life we want nothing but facts, sir; nothing but facts.

Source: 'Hard...

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Charles Dickens: Our backs is...

Charles Dickens: Our backs is...

Our backs is easy ris. We must be cracked-up, or they rises, and we snarls. We shows our teeth, I tell you, fierce....

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Charles Dickens: He had used...

Charles Dickens: He had used...

He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.

Source: (Mr Blotton) Pickwick...

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Charles Dickens: She is come...

Charles Dickens: She is come...

She is come at last - at last - and all is gas and gaiters!

Source: (The Gentleman...

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Charles Dickens: In came a...

Charles Dickens: In came a...

In came a fiddler - and tuned like fifty stomach-aches.
In came Mrs Fezziwig, one vast substantial...

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Charles Dickens: It's over, and...

Charles Dickens: It's over, and...

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, ven they cuts the wrong...

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Charles Dickens: Old girl,' said...

Charles Dickens: Old girl,' said...

'Old girl,' said Mr Bagnet, `give him my opinion. You know it.'

Source: Bleak...

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Charles Dickens: It's calm and...

Charles Dickens: It's calm and...

It's calm and - what's that word again - critical! - no - classical, that's it - it is calm and...

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Charles Dickens: I expect a...

Charles Dickens: I expect a...

I expect a judgment. Shortly.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 3
-- Charles Dickens,...

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Charles Dickens: God bless us...

Charles Dickens: God bless us...

'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Source: A Christmas...

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Charles Dickens: Life is made...

Charles Dickens: Life is made...

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Louisa May Alcott: My definition [of...

Louisa May Alcott: My definition [of...

My definition [of a philosopher] is a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine...

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George Eliot: Wear a smile...

George Eliot: Wear a smile...

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less...

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George Eliot: Children demand that...

George Eliot: Children demand that...

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . . .

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