Young man Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Do you mean to tell me,” she cried out, “that he left nothing! That Sara will have no fortune! That the child is a…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“The Baron's lady weighed about three hundred and fifty pounds, and was therefore a person of great consideration..”

— Voltaire

“To hear this pretty childish voice speaking his own language so simply and charmingly made him feel almost as if he were in his…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“When do you wish to go?” “Early to-morrow morning, sir.” “Well, you must have some money; you can’t travel without money, and I daresay…

— Charlotte Brontë

“There was very much in the whole affair of which he would not be proud as he led his bride to the altar;--but a…

— Anthony Trollope

“She wears her grief like a coat of feathers too heavy for flight. He crossed out heavy, wrote weighted instead, then decided that was…

— Libba Bray

“... protested Mrs. Featherstone, a lady in her thirties, whose violently compressed figure suggested that she was engaged in a perpetual struggle to compute…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Sixty thousand yuan – a fortune representing ten years’ wages at the restaurant – and a week’s imprisonment with the threat of rape, and…

— Hyeonseo Lee

“I am happy to pay you," she announced. "For your services." A harsh, strangled sound cut through the room. It came from him. "Pay…

— Sarah MacLean

“I appear inadvertently to have caused much trouble, sir." "Jeeves!" I said. "Sir?" "How much money is there on the dressing-table?" "In addition to…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“The dressmakers have just arrived from Shylon; they are coming here to display their goods.’ ‘Really, that’s lovely.’ ‘I was wondering if I could…

— A. H. Septimius

“Such finery, paid for at the small cost of human lives and dignity.”

— Alyssa Cole