Apologizing Quote by Neil Gaiman

“His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and…

— Eleanor Catton

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize…

— Douglas Adams

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“The stranger did not go to church, and indeed made no difference between Sunday and the irreligious days, even in costume. He worked, as…

— H.G. Wells

“...he wound up misbehaving in a manner so bold and outlandishly inappropriate that it wasn't clear to him if he had lost his mind…

— Paul Auster

“He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within…

— Victor Hugo

A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

— D. H. Lawrence

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time…

— Jack London

“the dark young man had been yawning and looking aimlessly out of the window, impatiently expecting the end of the journey. He was preoccupied,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round, angry and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was a master in the art of spreading boredom and playing the clumsy fool-though never so egregiously that people might enjoy making fun…

— Patrick Süskind