Quotes About Elizabeth

Well, the cat is flourishing and gets more spoiled and more beautiful every day. His whiskers measure, from tip to tip, including his mouth and nose, of course, ten inches, pure white whale bone.

The way downhill, into the bottomless incredulity which is despair, was incandescent with flowering chestnut trees.

In a library in a staid South Coast resort of retirees

You think I exaggerate." "At the moment—" "Well, this sort of moment never really stops . . .

Oh, this will never do, she thought. He could kiss like the very devil and be astute.

Elizabeth Chadwick

Was he still, somehow, watching over her?

A man is so in the way in the house.

James Gould Cozzens used this incident in his 1948 novel Guard of Honor, but he moved it to the South.

I don't think fear that you share with the whole world warps you. It's personal fears that do that.

She had the courage that accepts instantly, without recoil, and the reverence in love that towards man is without possessiveness and towards God without rebellion

They gazed at her with awe, feeling to the full that medieval reverence for someone obviously touched in the head.

Cleanliness is next to godliness is an old wives' saying but there's a lot in it. It wouldn't surprise me if one slid down the road to Hell all the quicker if it's slimy with grease; kitchen grease and the grease of an unwashed skin.

If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one.

On the Thursday I called an emergency locksmith and had the locks changed on the front door and the back door.

He lifted the band out and over Eric's penis before bringing it down

Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo -- and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise.

Halb möchte sie Pazifistin sein - wie Christopher -, und in gewisser Hinsicht bin ich auch der Meinung,' sagte Polly. 'Aber sie möchte auch Flugzeuge fliegen und ein U-Boot kommandieren können, was nicht besonders logisch ist, Archie, da musst du mir recht geben

Tolkien said that you shouldn't leave a dragon out of your calculations if you live near him.

No; eternal slavery rather than be regarded with distrust by those whose respect I esteemed.

Katharine Briggs's comprehensive The Fairies in Tradition and Literature.

some 365 billion metric tons of carbon to the atmosphere.

The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.")

Durrant stopped off at a commissary of sorts to pick up a selection of his favorite snacks.