Quotes 2621 till 2640 of 10786.
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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
Rick Moody (2007) 391 -
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
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He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
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He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.
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He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
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He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.
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He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
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