Bilbo-baggins Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Knowing the truth about the vanishing did not lessen their opinion of Bilbo at all; for they saw that he had some wits, as…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Mrs. Grancy acquired the charm which makes some women's faces like a book of which the last page is never turned. There was always…

— Edith Wharton

“I was conscious of a passing pang for the oyster world, feeling--and I think correctly--that life for these unfortunate bivalves must be one damn…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she found nothing…

— Louisa May Alcott

“intervals of munching and mumbling as she crammed food into her mouth. I did not blame Lady Baskerville for her precipitate departure”

— Elizabeth Peters

“She hears the word bell, or orchard, or swallow, and she experiences a strange surprise, like the feel of a coin in the soil.…

— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

“As he passed through the dining room, he stopped and took a white daisy from the bouqet his housekeeper had placed in the middle…

— Carsten Jensen

“On rainy afternoons, embroidering with a group of friends on the begonia porch, she would lose the thread of the conversation and a tear…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts,…

— Virginia Woolf

“She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and…

— Erica Bauermeister

“The thing was, Mitchell now knew what Merton meant, or thought he did. As he took in the marvelous sights, the dusty Polo grounds,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. He had always intended to visit him, though to the last…

— Jane Austen