The restlessness that comes upon girls upon summer evenings results in lasting trouble unless it is speedily controlled. The right... kind of man does not look for a wife on the streets, and the right kind of girl waits till the man comes to her home for her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dining-out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends..., belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason the...y don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat's cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And in spite of all the dishonour, The broken standards, the broken lives,... The broken faith in one place or another, here was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings. Only the faith could have done what was good of it....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to her ...mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"I can make you happy," said he to the back of her head, across the bush. "You shall have a piano in a year or two--farmers' wives... are getting to have pianos now--and I'll practice up the flute right well to play with you in the evenings." "Yes; I should like that." "And have one of those little ten-pound gigs for market--and nice flowers, and birds--cocks and hens I mean, because they can be useful," continued Gabriel, feeling balanced between poetry and practicality. "I should like it very much." "And a frame for cucumbers--like a gentleman and lady." "Yes." "And when the wedding was over, we'd have it put in the newspaper lists of marriages." "Dearly I should like that!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing... Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat... In a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discove...ry to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »