Quotes Tagged With :bovary

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

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

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment.....

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

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with....

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

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

[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....

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