Dreams Quote by Theodore Dreiser

“A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy...”

— Anonymous

“Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of…

— Theodore Dreiser

“she had always considered that, far from the world of Ealing and its county councillors who over-ate and neighed like stallions, there were bright…

— Ford Madox Ford

“Behind the studied blankness of her gaze, revolt must have been simmering. I recognized that surliness, that stubbornness, that captive-princess indignation, which must be…

— Margaret Atwood

“The unhorsing, wounding and capture of the enemy was sought, for corpses fetched little ransom, but in the blind chaos of the charge, death…

— Robyn Young

“How explain to him that she, who had been lapped like a lily in folds of paduasoy, had hacked heads off, and lain with…

— Virginia Woolf

“The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a…

— Brenda Novak

“Renly thought she was absurd. A woman dressed in man's mail, pretending to be a knight." "If he'd ever seen her in pink satin…

— George R.R. Martin

“It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls her pride to her aid, desires her…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It's an important part of knight training - sweeping maidens off their feet.”

— Katie M. John

“There's blood pounding through the Duke's head. Knighthood is glory, he's thinking, not just grace in the saddle and at swordplay, but courage enough…

— Vanora Bennett