Quote by William Steig

“It was the type of pain he felt he could endure for as long as he had to.”

— Melina Marchetta

“And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. If this isn't nice, I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did…

— Joan Didion

“Though I no longer liked him or respected him, the thought of his disapproval frightened me.”

— Walter Kirn

“He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.”

— Anne Enright

“He possessed that quality in his profanity of not offending by it.”

— Owen Wister

“How much longer?"he asked, trying to be casual. "For ever, if you keep interrupting.”

— Tom Harper

“There is an epidemic of rudeness going around. Do your best to make sure you're not contributing to it.”

— Germany Kent

“That, he said, was the way he stayed young—by refusing to take anything quite as seriously as he should have done.”

— Leslie Charteris

“during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on one who…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I needed him to be cruel. It was easier to be disgusted by him.”

— Nashoda Rose

“No, certainly he didn’t. Not actually. He couldn’t, not very well, since he didn’t know. But he would have. It amounts to the same…

— Nella Larsen