Casanova Quote by William Bolitho

“The truth is that he (Casanova) had ceased subtly to be an adventurer to become a noisy scoundrel, or if that is too harsh,…

— William Bolitho

“They hadn't read as many stories as Malicia, and were rather more attached to the experience of real life, which is that when someone…

— Terry Pratchett

“That was the way with Casaubon's hard intellectual labours. Their most characteristic result was not the 'Key to all Mythologies', but a morbid consciousness…

— George Eliot

“The reaction came when he realized the waste and extravagance involved. He somtimes looked back with awe at the carnivals of affection he had…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“They had also brought in a piece of human scrap so monstrous that everyone recoiled at the sight, that it shocked men who were…

— Gabriel Chevallier

“He never even felt how countless petty circumstances were fusing together to create an imperceptible but powerful stream that would carry him back into…

— Ivo Andrić

“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He seemed to be buffeted from both sides, challenged by his dreams, which revolted at the compromises of reality, and assaulted by reality which…

— Walter Lippmann

“At that instant the smoking mouths of the rifles were aimed at him and letter by letter he heard the encyclicals that Mequiades had…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety—and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked…

— Nenia Campbell

“Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact…

— Robert Musil

“Till gradually he became desperate, lost his understanding, was plunged in a revolt that knew no bounds. Inarticulate, he moved with her at the…

— D.H. Lawrence