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Duke's--we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
He was the voice in England of this humane intoxication and expansion, this encouraging of anybody to be anything. His best books are a carnival of liberty,
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
He is much too practical to be precise.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What I Saw in America
He had a sort of sunken depth of expression, and a grave, slow smile, suggesting no great quickness of wit, but an unimpassioned intensity of feeling which promised well for Martha’s happiness. He had little of the light, inexpensive urbanity of his countrymen, and more of a sort of heavy sincerity in his gaze which seemed to suspend response until
... See moreSusie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
What does Miss Pankhurst imagine a “rule” is—a sort of basilisk?