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That's almost like telling lies, she said. And lies—well, you see, they are not only wicked—they're VULGAR. Sometimes—reflectively—I've thought perhaps I might do something wicked—I might suddenly fly into a rage and kill Miss Minchin, you know, when she was ill-treating me—but I COULDN'T be vulgar.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you'll credit it, sir, out of doors he
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Victorian and touchingly respectable. "I have been crying," confessed Lady Agatha. "I was afraid so, Lady Agatha," said Emily.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
From excerpts I'd read in Philosophy 101 at Randolph-Macon, Marx was dead on, I thought, about the idiocy of rural life. I knew better than to quote Marx. I tuned out everyone on the home front.
~ Frances Mayes
No, I'm all right. I think I'm just over-stimulated or something." "Do you want to explain that one to me? Do we need to take you to buy some condoms?" "Mom! No.
~ Francesca Lia Block
Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen.
~ Francine Pascal
Elizabeth had amnesia and her defenses were down. Bruce had tried to take advantage of her – what guy wouldn't? Unfortunately, she got her memory back just in time, ran right out of his house, and wrecked his plans for the evening.
~ Francine Pascal
Don't make light of werewolves, Jessica,' Luke said in a quiet voice. 'They're very serious business.
~ Francine Pascal
Oooh. Barbie has a brain, huh? The smile was gone. His voice low, gravelly. Oooh. Ken has an attitude, she snapped back.
~ Francine Pascal
I wouldn't be caught dead bowling! Jessica shouted as she pushed back her chair and rushed out of the room.
~ Francine Pascal
But to have had to wear that yucky candy striper's uniform all that time. Jessica pinched her nose with her fingers.
~ Francine Pascal
Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.
~ Francine Prose
God, who established the heavens, set the price for life, and it was the blood of the lamb.
~ Francine Rivers
the boys in line." Hildemara didn't receive a reward for
~ Francine Rivers
If you don't love her, leave her alone. If you do, let her be the woman she is. You'll find a good description in that Bible of yours. Proverbs 31, if I remember rightly. A woman of virtue…" Just like a man to focus on the woman. Take a good, hard look at the husband that woman had" She shook her head. If I ever met a man who treated me with that kind of respect, I might even marry again.
~ Francine Rivers
Simply because holiness is the product of grace, and God gives grace only to the humble.
~ Francis Frangipane
Ve?ina nas ima svoje omiljeno, herojsko razdoblje života; ovo je bilo Diverovo.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Lorsqu'il ouvrait la bouche, sa voix de ténor rauque et bourrue accentuait encore son expression belliqueuse.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.
~ Frank Baum
you and your friend are welcome to my hospitality, unless of course you think your delicate sensibilities will be offended.
~ Frank Beddor
He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.
~ Frank Bruni
Seltzer says that Robert Kintner of ABC—later president of NBC—declared adamantly, "No sports will ever be on television on Sunday." Then Seltzer adds: "Yes, he said that. He told me that.
~ Frank Deford
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
~ Frank Herbert
The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II
~ Frank Herbert