Mrs. de Winter: Whenever you touched me I knew you were comparing me with Rebecca. Whenever you looked at me or spoke to me, or wa...lked with me in the garden, I knew you were thinking, "This I did with Rebecca, and this, and this." Oh, it's true isn't it? Maxim de Winter: You thought I loved Rebecca? You thought that? I hated her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make ...a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Negro history must be studied, not only because it is the history of over 19 millions, but American life as a whole cannot be unde...rstood without knowing it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough. Whitman was, from firs...t to last, a boorish, awkward poseur.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of the... highest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a... nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can put a Miss America in a room with a group of other attractive women and you'll find you will know exactly who she is. It's... almost like a magnet. There is an inner beauty, an inner glow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »