Quote by Virginia Woolf

“One feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause;…

— Virginia Woolf

“Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and all of London blinked back to a delighted Maude. She and Matt stood alone in…

— Anna Adams

“It was nearly eight before he returned to the office. This was the hour when he found London most lovable; the working day over,…

— Robert Galbraith

“and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of…

— Charles Dickens

“She put another small log on the fire and listened to the quiet murmur of Peter and Ben. She couldn’t make out the words,…

— Louise Penny

“Rebecca saw red.The urge she had to fly at Elizabeth with her nails bared was too compelling. She couldn't resist it. That Elizabeth immediately…

— Johanna Lindsey

“be a delightful scheme indeed, and completely do for us at once. Good Heaven! Brighton, and a whole campful of soldiers, to us, who…

— Jane Austen

“Big Ben struck the half hour. How extraordinary it was, strange, yes, touching, to see the old lady (they had been neighbors ever so…

— Virginia Woolf

“He watched from the boat as they sailed past the sights of London – the thrusting steel spires of Canary Wharf, the domed O2…

— Paul Pilkington

“Although there were moments even still in the grey glint of morning when the room had the agitated, stricken appearance of a person who…

— Ronald Firbank

“If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour,…

— Harper Lee

“The Longbourn party were the last of all the company to depart, and, by a manoeuvre of Mrs. Bennet, had to wait for their…

— Jane Austen