The old--like children--talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one w...ere to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]he minister preached a sermon on Jonah and the whale, at the end of which an old chief arose and declared, "We have heard sever...al of the white people talk and lie; we know they will lie, but this is the biggest lie we ever heard."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do, after seeing one in the street young ...couples will go back to bed and make love, people will cross themselves and thank God for the gift of their stuporous lives, old folks will talk to each other over cups of hot water with lemon because murders are enlivened sermons to be analyzed and considered and relished, they speak to the timid of the dangers of rebellion, murders are perceived as momentary descents of God and so provide joy and hope and righteous satisfaction to parishioners, who will talk about them for years afterward to anyone who will listen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of love was born.... I cannot think that he who then loved most, Sunk so low as to love one which did scorn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who ma...kes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune ... in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this.... He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent--for every effect a perfect cause--and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... I'll talk to you, old woman, afterward. I've got some news that maybe isn't news.... What are they trying to do to me, these two?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women realize that we are living in an ungoverned world. At heart we are all pacifists. We should love to talk it over with the wa...r-makers, but they would not understand. Words are so inadequate, and we realize that the hatred must kill itself; so we give our men gladly, unselfishly, proudly, patriotically, since the world chooses to settle its disputes in the old barbarous way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder wi...th air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they ...had any concern in it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dear Chloe, how blubbered is that pretty face! Thy cheek all on fire, and thy hair all uncurled.... Prithee, quit this caprice; and (as old Falstaff says) Let us e'en talk a little like folks of this world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »