Quote by George Barr McCutcheon Download Open image “He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.” — George Barr McCutcheon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
He was a physically imposing presence - 6 feet tall and very broad in the shoulders - and an imposing intellectual presence as well.… — Jack Hemingway Copy Share Image
“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible,… — Philip Dormer Stanhope Copy Share Image
“he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline—he could not even attempt to imitate decorum.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an engaging modesty.” — Maugham W. Somerset (William Somerset Copy Share Image
“He had a singularly charming smile, and it ensured for him, no matter how exacting might be his demands, the uncomplaining exertions of his… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“his avowal of follies and excess seemed uttered rather in the spirit of wounded pride, than in that of contrition.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to understand him. On the one hand he pandered even to the most unimportant things while on the other he was… — Heinz Linge Copy Share Image
Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb… — George Barr McCutcheon Copy Share Image
A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable… — George Barr McCutcheon Copy Share Image
In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story. — George Barr McCutcheon Copy Share Image
“It's all right, little woman, take my word for it. If I were you, I'd cry. You'll see things differently through your tears.” — George Barr McCutcheon Copy Share Image
