Quotes Tagged With :bovary

Charles went to kiss her shoulder.-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress.

Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would....

How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion....

I have often thought that Walter Mitty had it in him to be more than a hen-pecked loser. Instead of living....

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society....

I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary....

One thinks of nothing,’ he continued; ‘the hours slip by. Motionless we traverse countries we fancy....

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of....

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing....

So don't be too fast to attribute yourself with miraculous sexual powers, The Christ of Love. Emma and....