Years ago Quote by Neal Stephenson

“The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these things: how…

— Henry James

“Somehow, this was one oddity too many. He could accept "Mind the Gap" and the Earl's Court, and even the strange library. But damn…

— Neil Gaiman

You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the…

— William Butler Yeats

“The guest was now the master of Wuthering Heights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorney, who, in his turn, proved it…

— Emily Brontë

“The Slytherin sleeping quarters felt to James like someplace a very tasteful and wealthy pirate captain might sleep. The room was wide, with a…

— G. Norman Lippert

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

“It is a queer little world that inhabits these quarters – speaking every known dialect of the British Isles – but they get on…

— D.E. Stevenson

“arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of”

— Charles Dickens

“Ethan looked over at his father and uncle and asked, “Is this space large enough for one more box muskets?” “It should be,” his…

— Deborah G. Felder

“In the next room, perhaps twenty people were sitting around, drinking what looked like wine out of wine-glasses. They were the sort of people…

— Jesse Ball

“...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