Being the sons of mothers whose husbands had blundered rather brutally through their feminine sanctities, they were themselves too... diffident and shy. They could easier deny themselves than incur any reproach from a woman; for a woman was like their mother, and they were full of the sense of their mother. They preferred themselves to suffer the misery of celibacy, rather than risk the other person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the c...ommon people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They had met, and included in their meeting the thrust of the manifold grass stems, the cry of the peewit, the wheel of the stars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think ... I have inside me a sort of answer to the want of today: to the real, deep want of the English people, not to just what... they fancy they want. And gradually, I shall get my hold on them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He would not take that direction, to the darkness, to follow her. He walked towards the faintly humming, glowing town, quickly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »