Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“from Arlington Street and onto the bridge. He had his hands in his coat pockets. “You Spenser?” he said. “Yes.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship! — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
“After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“I read Parker's Spenser series in college. When it comes to detective novels, 90 percent of us admit he's an influence, and… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“Thank you sir," she said. "I hope that your friend feels better soon." I shrugged. "The ways of the Lord" I said,… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“...You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me." Fraser said, "Mind… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I don't want to dis anybody, but someone like Robert Parker. I first read a Spenser book maybe 20 years ago and… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Do you have a first name, Mr. Spenser'?” Jill said. She had a soft girlish voice with just a hint of huskiness… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass… — Tim Maleeny Copy Share Image
“How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?" "Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. "Has a European feel" Susan said. "That… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“I pulled the MG in beside him at the curb and he got in. "This thing ain't big enough for either one… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
“The most interesting inconsistency in thought is connected with the Bower of Bliss. This passage--the twelfth canto of the second Book--is probably… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“We have then, in the first part of The Faerie Queene, four of the seven deadly sins depicted in the more important… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“Thus, on the one hand, Spenser's thought is steeped in sensuous detail, so that for him there is no really abstract thinking;… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“We have, then, three Books wholly and one partially written before, and two after, the Preface; and only one of the first… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
