Civility Quote by Frances Burney

“By the age of twenty the distinctly Branwellian qualities would be developed from which he would never again shake himself free.”

— Winifred Gérin

“Bran’s father sat solemnly on his horse, long brown hair stirring in the wind. His closely trimmed beard was shot with white, making him…

— George R.R. Martin

“He still had a fragment of his boyhood belief that congressman were persons of intelligence and importance.”

— Sinclair Lewis

“You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man’s vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.”

— Mary Doria Russell

“Word of his great strength, intelligence, and perseverance had spread even this far, and yet his youth was such that my father knew he…

— Daniel Wallace

“He didn’t always tell his father when it happened, because the old man’s face turned mottled blue over his doublet, and unless Will got…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer…

— Orson Scott Card

“William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of…

— Patricia C. Wrede

“His moral lecture blazed with hate. What could have driven a child that far?”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

“A bastard son must fight his own way in the world. Osferth knew that.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“But he did allow himself to be persuaded, otherwise he would have been ostracized. And perhaps more of us thought as he did, but…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“He turned from the daughters of minor aristocrats to those of farriers, farmers and foresters. Personally he couldn't tell the difference, yet the world…

— Diane Setterfield