Old man Quote by Mark Twain

“Countess Nadasdy served the tea. Miss Tarabotti took hers with milk, Miss Dair took hers with lemon, and the vampires took theirs with a…

— Gail Carriger

“May I speak with his mother?" "Of course,follow me." The butler didn't go far,stopping at the door to the dining room to announce loftily,…

— Johanna Lindsey

“This soirée was followed by a longer and more serious session in Pommeroy's, which had ended once again, I regret to say, with Henry…

— John Mortimer

“Thus I did with Susan as with most other things in my earlier days, dipping her image into my mind and coloring it of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It was a strange room, the door hanging off its hinges, and yet a telephone. But its last occupant was a harlot, long past…

— Samuel Beckett

“It's the martyrdom of Saint Me.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“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

“It was the confession of a saint. -Martin Ladvenu”

— Susan Banfield

“And in the centre of the clearing, my dear Florence,’ she was saying, without apparently having broken her conversational stride, ‘we have . .…

— T E Kinsey

“And as he followed after the Irishwoman, Margaret Erskine, most levelheaded of women, picked up a Palissy vase, looked at it earnestly and smashed…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“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

“You could tempt a saint into ruin.”

— Vivienne Lorret