Quote by Vladimir Nabokov Download Open image ““…two lumpy old ladies in semitransparent raincoats, like potatoes in cellophane…”” — Vladimir Nabokov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples. — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
“So she sat down to morning tea, like any other old lady with a high nose, thin cheeks, a ring on her finger and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“These older women knew their place, staying tucked away, fading into the background. Mostly, they tended the kitchen, where they learned to make themselves… — Miriam Karmel Copy Share Image
“Maman drops to her knees, grasps the hem of Monsieur LeBlanc’s greatcoat. “You cannot turn us out. My daughters, all three good girls, you… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Her breasts hung like a couple of moldy pomegranates in crusty tube socks.” — Robert Bevan Copy Share Image
“I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to play the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I spent the next two weeks flopped on my grandmother's super-bourgeois rose-colored velvet sofa, consuming massive quantites of grapes, reading obsessively.” — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines In two straight lines they… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
“Without the baggy clothes or oven mitts, she looked less like a cute young housewife and more like something that had crawled out of… — S.M. Reine Copy Share Image
“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Ami azt illeti, Vannak kezdtek nagyon tetszeni a fák is, a csodák is meg az Adák is.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It isn’t possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Precautions to be taken in the case Of freak reincarnation: what to do On suddenly discovering that you Are now a young and vulnerable… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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