Quotes About Townsfolk

there's starvation in the town, though I doubt if either empress or bishop is going short." He was a man who spoke his mind, and no great respecter of high personages. "A very different tale for the poor townsfolk! But it's biting even the garrison

And many of the townsfolk of Boston seem more concerned with the profit of their business than the great cause that is swirling around them.

Alexander Dumas, pere, whose son created the most famous consumptive of all in La Dame aux Camelias, observed in 1847 that "frail pale women come to Nice to die," and he criticized the townsfolk for "living at the expense of the sick foreigners.

No one in Middle march was likely to have such a notion of Lydgate's past as has here been faintly shadowed, and indeed the respectable townsfolk there were not more given than mortals generally to any eager attempt at exactness in the representation to themselves of what did not come under their own senses.

The townsfolk in their darkened rooms were dazed as if by some cataclysm, some devastating earthquake, against which all wisdom and all resistance is of no avail. Such a feeling is produced every time the established order of things is upset, when security is destroyed and everything is hitherto protected by the laws of man or nature is suddenly at the mercy of wild unreasoning brutality.

For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.

Townsfolk can get downright touchy over the occasional earth-elemental in the scullery. Can't imagine why....

Living in a small town...is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations. Sometimes it's fun, and sometimes it's perfectly awful, but it's always good for you. People in large towns are like only-children.

When the townsfolk emerged from their homes a couple of hours later to raise their faces to the golden sun rising briefly above the distant mountains, they were greeted not with the usual whisper of falling snow, but with clanks and thumps and what may have been Gallifreyan swearwords drifting from the upper section of the Clock Tower. Distracted

Good. Now let's go down to the pub and meet the townsfolk, Iain said. Bar, Euann corrected, just to be contrary. Let's go down to the pub before I hit ya with a bar, Iain said.

Are these not the words that the LORD proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were populous and prosperous, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited?í”