'This respect is owed to both your exploits and your name, although, like mine, your sanity's suspect.'
-Don Quixote
'This respect is owed to both your exploits and your name, although, like mine, your sanity's suspect.'
-Don Quixote
Did she still?
'Presently my mistress touched the bell, and in came a strapping maid-servant, who had let us in.'
Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland
Shame really, there could have been some very saucy stuff, if the pages would only have been bigger :D.
But in spite of this, each of them--as is often the way with men who have selected careers of different kinds--though in discussion he would even justify the other's career, in his heart despised it. ANNA KARENINA. Is it cheating if the 'book at hand' is what I'm reading on-line?
"Muslin can never be said to be wasted"
Northanger Abbey. Jane Austen
"Do you like being...an actor?"
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
New Orleans! Not a bad place to spend a year in prison--except in summer.
Lancelot ~ Walker Percy
'Well ought a preest ensample for to yive
By his clenness how that his sheep shold live.'
Something like 'A priest ought to give example to his sheep how they should live by his cleanliness. (meaning chastity of course)'
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue about the priest.
Hilarious :D
"Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I'm sure she's the best cat in the world!"
"All is 'sex'."
"Silas Marner could very likely do as much, and more; and now it was all clear how he should have come from unknown parts, and be so "comical-looking."
"But I will only say that you will give yourself unnecessary trouble, for I shall take the matter into my own hands now."
'I repeat to you, but for the last time, stop pretending that you're a madman, robber,' Pilate said softly and monotonously, 'there's not much written in your record, but what there is is enough to hang you.'
The Bible :]
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth."
The last thirty years seemed to have mellowed him out completely. Red Dwarf