Adventure Quote by Fanny Burney

“How explain to him that she, who had been lapped like a lily in folds of paduasoy, had hacked heads off, and lain with…

— Virginia Woolf

“It had not occurred to him how he must appear to an outsider, to the world. For a moment he saw himself as he…

— John Williams

“She was suddenly roused by the sound of the door-bell, and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its being Colonel…

— Jane Austen

“Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped…

— Victor Hugo

“Oui,” the lady said in a slightly dazed voice, “but I cannot give you the emerald silk. That has already been selected by Lady…

— Judith McNaught

Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“[...] Louisa's attention, which had been wandering more and more during the progress of Magdalen's inquiries, wandered away altogether.”

— Wilkie Collins

“She seemed glad to see me. In fact, she actually said she was glad to see me – a statement no other aunt on…

— P.G.Wodehouse

“The last lingering shadow of the Jesuit, gliding behind curtains and concealing himself in cupboards, faded from my young life about the time when…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Well, sir, do you mean to remain there, commending my father’s taste in wine, or do you mean to accompany me to Ashtead?” “Set…

— Georgette Heyer

“Aunt Agatha's demeanor now was rather like that of one who, picking daisies on the railway, has just caught the down express in the…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I was too much taken up with another interest to care; I felt beneath my feet the threshold of the strange door, in my…

— Henry James