Urdu Quote by Edward Gorey

“Sir Jasper Finch-Farrowmere?’ said Wilfred. ‘ffinch-ffarrowmere,’ corrected the visitor, his sensitive ear detecting the capitals.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Upon her butler’s announcing the arrival of Mr Ravenscar, Lady Mablethorpe, who had been dozing over a novel from the Circulating Library, sat up…

— Georgette Heyer

“For the next half-hour or so there was nothing to be done but sit and suffer it. We had Madame Tetrazzini trilling about the…

— Gillian Linscott

“My ears hurt as if being tugged upon by pliers—yet I welcome the pain, as it heralds the completion of my journey to reunite…

— Horton Deakins

“Mr. Benner was thrown, whereupon his neck was broken.” He pantomimed breaking a stick and made a cracking sound. “He was pronounced dead at…

— Stephanie Reed

“Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep. A few minutes later, however, he…

— Aldous Huxley

“I love the juxtaposition of these words. I love the incongruity, the oddity, the very strangeness of their nearness. Dizzy Gillespie. Pakistan. What does…

— Maliha Masood

“brothers and I finished digging the grave he had already begun, and we buried him in the company of Mr. Orrick’s wife and two…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“it was such a curious corner in its acoustical properties, such a peculiar Ear of a place, that as Mr. Loory stood at the…

— Charles Dickens

“That puppet there,’ continued the Talking-cricket, ‘is a confirmed rogue. …’ Pinocchio opened his eyes, but shut them again immediately. ‘He is a ragamuffin,…

— Carlo Collodi