Giles Lacey: I say, old boy, I'm trying to find exactly what your wife does do. Maxim de Winter: She sketches a little.... Giles Lacey: Sketches. Oh not this modern stuff, I hope. You know, portrait of a lamp shade upside down to represent a soul in torment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty on...e can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship ...and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet to range over it as coureurs de bois, or runners of the woods, or, as Hontan prefers to call them, coureurs de risques, runners of risks; to say nothing of their enterprising priesthood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are de cause of de brutality of these poor creeters. For you're de children of those who enslaved dem.... You are ready to hel...p de heathen in foreign lands, but don't care for the heathen right about you. I want you to sign petitions to send to Washington. Dey say there dey will do what de people want. The majority rules. If dey want anything good dey git it. If dey want anything not right dey git it too. You send these petitions, and those men in Congress will have something to spout about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dat man ober dar say dat womin needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted ober ditches, and to hab de best place everywhar. Nob...ody eber helps me into carriages, or ober mud-puddles, or gibs me any best place! And a'n't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And a'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man--when I could get it--and bear de lash as well! And a'n't I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen 'em mos' all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And a'n't I a woman?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All know that all the dead in the world about that place are stuck And that should mother seek her son she'd have but little ...luck Because the fires of Purgatory have ate their shapes away; I swear to God I questioned them and all they had to say Was fol de rol de rolly O.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now I am in the public house and lean upon the wall, So come in rags or come in silk, in cloak or country shawl,... And come with learned lovers or with what men you may For I can put the whole lot down, and all I have to say Is fol de rol de rolly O.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or silk,... In country shawl or Paris cloak, had put my wits astray, And what's the good of women for all that they can say Is fol de rol de rolly O.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.... I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »