Quote by Charles Dickens

“How goes it, Jacques?" said one of these three to Monsieur Defarge. "Is all the spilt wine swallowed?" "Every drop, Jacques,”

— Charles Dickens

“He was particulary drawn to these two clerks by the fact that they both had crooked noses, one bent to the left and the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Squeezed against each other in the heavy heat, they were silent...looking toward the home that was expecting them--quiet, perspiring, resigned to this existence divided…

— Albert Camus

“It is not often," said the second of the three, addressing Monsieur Defarge, "that many of these miserable beasts know the taste of wine,…

— Charles Dickens

“On some evenings it would sadden Jacques to look at them (workers). Until then he had only known the riches and the joys of…

— Albert Camus

“It was a bad day when three or four men were not standing around the forge, listening to Samuel's hammer and his talk. They…

— John Steinbeck

“From all my talks with Henri, even the most cordial, I have always left with a slight taste of defeat; of also having been,…

— Primo Levi

“The waiter repeated, "The cocktails are from Mr Seadon. He asked me to tell you that he thought you'd enjoy them. They are called…

— Milly Silver

“in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?' Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor; 'those he…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“So they bring our poor Andreas into the vestry, and unfortunately he's no longer capable of speech, all he can do is reach for…

— Joseph Roth

“He was immaculately dressed, without trying. He dressed that way by nature - which meant that he had money - and I loved money.…

— Tarryn Fisher