Yes, dance. Dance and dream. Dream that you're Mrs. Henry Jekyll of Harley Street, dancing with your own butler and six footmen. D...ream that they've all turned into white mice and crawled into an eternal pumpkin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
it was older sure than this year's cutting, Or even last year's or the year's before.... The wood was gray and the bark warping off it And the pile somewhat sunken. Clematis Had wound strings round and round it like a bundle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Benjamin: Are you always this much afraid of being alone? Mrs. Robinson: Yes.... Benjamin: Well, why can't you just lock the doors and go to bed? Mrs. Robinson: I'm very neurotic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Benjamin: Do you think I'm proud of myself? Do you think I'm proud of this? Mrs. Robinson: I wouldn't know.... Benjamin: Well, I'm not. Mrs. Robinson: You're not? Benjamin: No, sir. I'm not proud that I spend my time with a broken-down alcoholic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Robinson: Do you find me undesirable? Benjamin: Oh, no, Mrs. Robinson. I think you're the most attractive of all my pare...nts' friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was this practical sense and cool will that won over Mrs. Lee, who was woman enough to assume that all the graces were well eno...ugh employed in decorating her, and it was enough if the other sex felt her superiority. Men were valuable only in proportion to their strength and their appreciation of women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all things in life, Mrs. Lee held this kind of court-service in contempt, for she was something more than republican--a little ...communistic at heart, and her only serious complaint of the President and his wife was that they undertook to have a court and to ape monarchy. She had no notion of admitting social superiority in any one, President or Prince, and to be suddenly converted into a lady-in-waiting to a small German Grand-Duchess, was a terrible blow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas tree ...will bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Henry B. Adams was the first in an infinite series to discover and admit to himself that he really did not care whether truth was,... or was not, true. He did not even care that it should be proved true, unless the process were new and amusing. He was a Darwinian for fun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »