Quote by Jane Austen

“Mr. Rushworth was eager to assure her ladyship of his acquiescence, and tried to make out something complimentary; but between his submission to her…

— Jane Austen

“Bryant wanted to be outside digging up corpses and chasing (as much as his bad leg would allow) unscrupulous but fiendishly brilliant villains through…

— Christopher Fowler

“people who served his customers. In conversations, he had the capacity to make each person feel important and as the total focus of his…

— Bob Wall

“English officer came striding across the field quite deliberately. He stopped, saluted with a ramrod spine, and said, “Arthur Clarke. I gather you’re the…

— Gregory Benford

“It was more that he did better being busy, keeping to a routine. It helped hold the black dogs of thought at bay. Also…

— Ellen Airgood

“Robin’s experience is his love for his fellow man. He was in the fortunate position of having plenty of money, yet it wasn’t just…

— Brian Morris

“From that time forward, Mr. Utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of shops. In the morning before office hours, at noon…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Either the War Office had recruited Ramses - in which case I would have General Spencer's head on a platter - or Ramses had…

— Elizabeth Peters

“When all was said and done, the endeavors that most modern men saw as urgent (such as appointments with bankers and the catching of…

— Amor Towles

“He was particulary drawn to these two clerks by the fact that they both had crooked noses, one bent to the left and the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He was the type of person who believed he alone could do the job adequately and afterward complained that no one had helped.”

— Stacy Schiff

“As much as Jason hated the man, it was plain to see how Sloan had built the empire he had. Perseverance, dedication and hard…

— Kristen Painter