Attention Quote by Ilka Chase

[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London,…

— Susan Mitchell

“He was resolved, he said, to return home to the Hollow that very afternoon. Mr. Yorke, instead of opposing, aided and abetted him. The…

— Charlotte Brontë

“year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English…

— Charles Dickens

“this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to…

— Charles Dickens

“I was strong in English, and thankful for it. I knew the great Dr. Johnson from his friend Mr. Boswell. There is a friend…

— Richard Llewellyn

“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my…

— Pat Conroy

“I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed up in this extraordinary case, which was the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into…

— Kingsley Martin

“of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have…

— Charles Dickens

“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.”

— John Fowles

“As if I were a calf at auction, Henry asked me to stand in profile. That night I was wearing knit pants, and my…

— Carly Simon

“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