Habits Quote by James Joyce

“Stephen watched the three glasses being raised from the counter as his father and his two cronies drank to the memory of their past.…

— James Joyce

“It was quite unlike their friendly discourse of some days before, and presently Stephen grew sadly bored: lies or half-lies, he reflected, had a…

— Patrick O'Brian

“In truth, they were not given to quarrelling. Many couples who love each other more, quarrel more, and with less politeness.”

— George MacDonald

“There is nothing that so satisfactorily unites individuals who have been so unfortunate as to quarrel amongst themselves as a strong mutual dislike for…

— P.G.Wodehouse

“He was in conflict with himself. There was no enjoyment in the thought that he had escaped a great danger, and in the midst…

— Norbert Jacques

“He and I were both dominant beings and to submit to each other was our war of attrition; giving up everything we were to…

— Sarah Michelle Lynch

“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of their blunt,…

— Radclyffe Hall

“With no sense of the passing of time, they held each other and lost themselves in the opening, unmasking tenderness that always comes after…

— William Maxwell

“He was not quite eight-and-twenty, still swift and exact in his motions, and possessed of the kind of roguish, unsullied vigor that conveys neither…

— Eleanor Catton

“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments, injured spirits,…

— Michelle Franklin

“The stranger did not go to church, and indeed made no difference between Sunday and the irreligious days, even in costume. He worked, as…

— H.G. Wells

“He had never quarreled much with this woman, while with the women that he loved he had quarreled so much they had finally, always,…

— Ernest Hemingway