Sheridan Quote by Jules Verne

“Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and…

— Jules Verne

He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of…

— Charles Dickens

Robert Frost had a house in Bennington, Vermont, and I had a friend, the poet Mary Ruefle, who was the caretaker of it when…

— Doug Stanton

“At last disgusted by war and its killing fields, Wilhelm Dinesen fled to America, where he lived alone in a log cabin in the…

— Robert Gaudi

“He settled in his beautiful Georgian house in Lymington surrounded by beautiful things. He knew how to live well, perhaps without regard for his…

— Dennis Wheatley

Why, Sir, Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken a great deal of pains to become what we now…

— Anonymous

“Though liberal in his praise and always courteous and condescending to the shop-people, he was scarcely ever known to pay a bill and when…

— Susanna Clarke

Mr. Harinton was real. There were adults in the world who would actually make sacrifices for others - not just for their own families…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

“ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of…

— Jane Austen

“The royal borough of Chucky Stanes, like every other town of the kind, enjoys an undue proportion of ladies in a state of single…

— John Galt

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre…

— Jane Austen

Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!

— Hines Ward