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“Tell me,' he asked, with some embarassment, as we strolled along: 'you're a bloody German, aren't you?''Oh, no. I'm Hungarian.''Hungarian?''Hungarian.''What's that? Is that a country? Or you are just having me on?'Not at all. On my word of honour, it is a country.''And where do you Hungarians live?''In Hungary. Between Austria, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia'.'Come off it. Those places were made up by Shakespeare.”
Antal Szerb“Need I say more?''No, because you're wrong, and I'd hate for you to keep embarrassing yourself.”
Erin McCahan, Love and Other Foreign Words“Coz," he said. "You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter.”
Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass“Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”
Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals“I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified; and I ran after him - he stood at the foot of the stairs.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre“Were it not for frustration and humiliationI suppose the human race would get ideas above its station.”
Ogden Nash, Custard and Company: Poems“Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.”
Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library“There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.”
Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”
Arthur Miller