Capitola Quote by E.D.E.N. Southworth

“It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!” quote by E.D.E.N. Southworth — Download Open image

““It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!””

E.D.E.N. Southworth

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Capitola Father and son Fools Humor Insult Insult to injury Knaves Parenting

More by E.D.E.N. Southworth

“gentle admonition." "Gentle admonition! Do you call that gentle admonition? Why, uncle, you are enough to frighten most people to death with your fury. You are a perfect dragon! a griffin! a Russian bear! a Bengal tiger! a Numidian lion! You're all Barnum's beasts in one! I declare, if I don't write and ask him to send a party down…

E.D.E.N. Southworth

“What the foul fiend is the meaning of all this?”

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Image

“And no sooner had Cap been commanded, if she valued her safety, not to cross the water or climb the precipice than, as a…

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Image

“Go! Go! Go! Go!' said that officer, with an expression as though he considered our Cap an individual of the animal kingdom whom neither…

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Image

“It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.”

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Image

“There is not such a man as the doctor appears in this world more than once in a hundred years.”

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Image

“I wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I…

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Image

“The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she…

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Image

“Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.”

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Image

“She loved old houses and old legends well enough to enjoy them; but was not sufficiently credulous to believe, or cowardly to fear, them.”

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Image

“The priest then turning toward the bride, inquired: "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, etc., etc., so long as ye both shall live?" To which the bride, throwing aside her veil, answered, firmly: "No! Not if he were the last man and I the last woman on the face of the earth and the human race…

E.D.E.N. Southworth