
“Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.”
As quoted in "Wanderer of Endless Curiosity" by R. Z. Sheppard in Time magazine (10 July 1989) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,958134,00.html
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.”
As quoted in "Wanderer of Endless Curiosity" by R. Z. Sheppard in Time magazine (10 July 1989) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,958134,00.html
“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”
“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
Volume II [Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 226 https://books.google.com/books?id=xAm2X8YfpJIC&pg=PA226)
Also in The Secret Ingredient by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2012, ISBN 1-442-41960-1] ( p. 169 https://books.google.com/books?id=o1ctj37QuikC&pg=PA169)
Source: The Woman in White (1859)
“Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.”
“What is given by the gods more desirable than the fortunate hour?”
Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?
LXII
Carmina
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. xviii.