Quote by Noel Monk

“Who cared about manners when their whole life was falling apart?”

— H.C. Roberts

“...I had decided to tidy up a bit. Actually it hadn't really been a choice. The situation had got out of hand, particularly because…

— Gianrico Carofiglio

“A waiter came swiftly along the room, and then stopped dead. His stoppage was as silent as his tread; but all those vague and…

— G.K. Chesterton

“How wrong they were. I wasn’t a poor little thing at all. Even as early as this, such is the relief when pressure is…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“He slammed the door and ran blindly down the corridor, grabbing at handles. What exactly had he seen? They had been eating with their…

— Ramsey Campbell

“Once she’d stepped into her room and shut the door behind her, all common sense and good intentions evaporated. She stood awestruck and mute,…

— Vivienne Savage

“We have gone from holding the door out of courtesy to standing before it out of obliviousness.”

— John Dickerson

“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

“The furniture would have missed you? Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“We both touched wood on the cafe table and the waiter came to see what it was we wanted. But what we wanted he,…

— Ernest Hemingway

“The door opened, held by the butler, and Lord Montagu swept into the room, his presence overwhelming the space. She could swear even the…

— Angela Quarles

“It makes me almost hope I'm not a genius; they must be very wearying to have about - and awfully destructive to the furniture.”

— Jean Webster