Catherine Xanadu Quote by Robert Goolrick

“For Catherine, the lesson was that more than intelligence and goodwill were needed to break down the traditions, prejudices, and ignorance of both the…

— Robert K. Massie

“In the midst of a thick forest, there was a castle that gave shelter to all travelers overtaken by night on their journey: lords…

— Italo Calvino

“what transported me into raptures were the sweeping cloaks, the wraps, the shawls, the veils, all those yielding, magnificent, unused materials that were soft…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.”

— Emily Brontë

“They were bound together by the things they’d done. Things the nobility could never comprehend being desperate enough to do”

— Lorraine Heath

“There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another’s need out of one’s fullness and plenty.”

— Howard Thurman

“So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The nobility of the kingdom grieved at being reduced to such ruin by the supine simplicity of one man,”

— Dan Jones

“And so Catherine's thoughts - as would the thoughts of any woman in such a quandary - turned to shopping: to the art dealers…

— Robert Coughlan

“Aristocracy is relative: there are all sorts of inexpensive little resorts where the son of a furniture salesman may be the arbiter of all…

— Marcel Proust

“Taken from men this morning, Carried by men to-day, Met by the gods with banners Who marshalled her away. One little maid from playmates,…

— Emily Dickinson

“The strong and strange thing—that which moves on its way as do birth and death, and the rising and setting of the sun—had begun…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett