Beggar Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

“As he passed people rushing by the scores of thousands on the streets, he saw the glory of their faces. He saw in the…

— Mark Helprin

“He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed…

— Daphne Du Maurier

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the…

— Charles Dickens

He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and…

— Charles Dickens

“He bethought him with pride that he had always been called a scholar, and sneered at for his love of solitude and books. He…

— Virginia Woolf

“The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item, by the…

— William Ritter

His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he…

— Terry Goodkind

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane…

— Milan Kundera

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind…

— Albert Camus

“Her father's old books were all she could command, and these she wore out with much reading. Inheriting his refined tastes, she found nothing…

— Louisa May Alcott

“He lost, for that moment, all the days and dogmas of his past; his concepts, his problems, his pain were wiped out; he knew…

— Ayn Rand

“Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were…

— Nikolai Gogol