Clever Quote by Karl Philipp Moritz

“Your butler informed me you were here. I thought-that is, I wondered how things were going.” “And since my butler didn’t know,” Ian concluded…

— Judith McNaught

“He knew he was going to reach Berwick, and that all he had to do was to place one foot in front of the…

— Rachel Joyce

“I was to be picked up and taken to my host’s house in Thamesmead, South London. As”

— Marricke Kofi Gane

“Other bits of England might be cramped, crowded, and cluttered, but only because all the available space had been claimed by this guest suite.…

— Neal Stephenson

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

— Max Beerbohm

“Now, where were we when our conversation had to be abandoned downstairs?” he said when Ian handed the papers back to him. Ian’s thoughts…

— Judith McNaught

It was in the beginning of the month of November, 17--, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the university of Oxford,…

— Walter Scott

“Why did you come here-that is, why did you agree to reconsider my proposal?” The question alarmed and startled her. Now that she’d seen…

— Judith McNaught

“...it occurred to me, not for the first time, what a remarkably small world Britain is. That is its glory, you see--that it manages…

— Bill Bryson

“pleasure at word that you were en route from England.”

— Sandee Keegan

“Elizabeth automatically started forward three steps, then halted, mesmerized. An acre of thick Aubusson carpet stretched across the book-lined room, and at the far…

— Judith McNaught

“After Ian left for the Greenleaf Inn, where he planned to stop for the night before continuing the trip to his own home, Elizabeth…

— Judith McNaught