"An idea so luminous flashed across her brain……" — Edward Frederic Benson
"An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light."
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Edward Frederic Benson
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18 Quotes by Edward Frederic Benson
Edward Frederic Benson has 18 quotes on this site.
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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
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There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them…
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The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to…
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...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and…
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Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as…
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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time,…
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Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something…
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them,…
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not…
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a…
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and…
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
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