Character Quote by Geoffrey Wood

“The rook is my favorite piece.’ she said. ‘It’s the one you think you don’t have to watch out for. It is straightforward. You…

— Matt Haig

“the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and degradation: in…

— John William Polidori

“I told Mr. Rook you were disinherited and he rushed back to help you. Mr. Rook is a rather remarkable person.” “Oh, chuck it,”…

— G.K. Chesterton

“But, imbued from her childhood with a brooding sense of wrong, and an inveterate hatred of a class, opportunity had developed her into a…

— Charles Dickens

“All young ladies are either very pretty or very clever or very sweet; they may take their choice as to which category they will…

— Samuel Butler

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham

“She strove for poised composure, despite feeling like a powerless pawn in a despicable game of human chess, played for the amusement of those…

— Collette Cameron

“They were, doubtless, good men, just and sage. But, out of the whole human family, it would not have been easy to select the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He was being the scrupulously honorable gentleman, she realized, protecting her name, taking the consequences of his own indiscretion. She understood all that and…

— Mary Balogh

“There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to…

— Anne Brontë