Interesting Characters Quotes

Phases of her childhood lurked in her aspect still. As she walked along to-day, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then. ~ Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes. ~ The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton "His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows." ~ Shirley by Charlotte Bronte "She looks just as music sounds, I think," answered Anne. ~ Anne Of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen. ~ Anne Of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery He fumed like a bottled storm. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte He has had the power of making the world believe in him simply because he has been rich and a duke. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope He was not witty, nor did he deal in anecdotes. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope In former days the Earl had been a man quite capable of making himself disagreeable, and probably had not yet lost the power of doing so. Of all our capabilities this is the one which clings longest to us. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope