Born Quote by Arundhati Roy

He thought of how calm he was. His calm was so perfect that he could not destroy it even by being conscious of it.

— Nathanael West

His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible,…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

“Nevertheless, this anger was inside him—I believe constantly. Like the house that was well ordered and yet falling apart from within, the man himself…

— paul auster

“It amused him sometimes to consider that his friends, because he had a face which did not express his feelings very vividly and a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was. A cancerous…

— Teju Cole

“He was new to the sycophancy and cowardice of men; their inability to think alone appalled him as much as did their need to…

— Kate O'Brien

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

— Matthew Henry

“He maintained his new fastidiousness without interruption, added to it an unwonted sparkle of eye and crispness of speech, and began little by little…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company…

— Charles Dickens

He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do…

— Anonymous