Cheerful Quote by Samuel Pepys

“And to crown the whole, you must needs come back and make a martyr of yourself, so now anyone who cares a farthing for…

— Naomi Novik

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had…

— Hilaire Belloc

“The heavy round face was looking at him, the hard look of a man who had also understood, who had seen all the stupidity,…

— Jeff Shaara

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

— Cardinal Richelieu

“General Polk, who was dignified and corpulent, walked back slowly, not wishing to appear too hurried or cautious in the presence of the men,…

— William T. Sherman

“He shut his mouth again and assumed a supercilious expression; this he wore for the remainder of the night, as if he regularly attended…

— Susanna Clarke

“He saw his enemies stealthily darting from rock to tree, and tree to bush, creeping through the brush, and slipping closer and closer every…

— Zane Grey

“[He] Spoke and rose to full height, sword in air, Then cleft the man's brow square between the temples Cutting his head in two…

— Virgil

“I forgot to mention,” Father Christopher said, smiling seraphically at Sir Martin, “that I am also a priest. So let me offer you a…

— Bernard Cornwell

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except…

— Pearl S. Buck

“He was an old hand at the Camp now, his hollow countenance and the intensity of his averted gaze familiar to all who came…

— William Trevor

As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose…

— Maggie Stiefvater