“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“You look rarther rash my dear your colors dont quite match your face.”
Daisy Ashford book The Young Visiters
Chapter 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=bfwsAAAAIAAJ&q=%22You+look+rarther+rash+my+dear+your+colors+dont+quite+match+your+face%22&pg=PA28#v=onepage <br class="br">The Young Visiters (1919)
“My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack, Act I
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“It’s magnificent, it’s really great. It is quite simple and quite a pure piece.”
Anish Kapoor (1954) British contemporary artist of Indian birth
Israeli sky in Anish’s steel- India-born artist sculpts landmark symbol for museum
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
Speak, Memory: A Memoir (1951)
Context: Whenever in my dreams, I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered, strangely depressed, quite unlike their dear bright selves. I am aware of them, without any astonishment, in surroundings they never visited during their earthly existence, in the house of some friend of mine they never knew. They sit apart, frowning at the floor, as if death were a dark taint, a shameful family secret. It is certainly not then — not in dreams — but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle-tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.
Christian Dior (1905–1957) French fashion designer
Carmel Snow in Harper’s Bazar office, in p. 135
This news and the show was hailed by the American and other foreign press as French press was on strike.
Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New
Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
Anything For Billy (1988).
Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor
As quoted in "Quotable Cary" at American Masters (25 May 2005)
Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33680672/the-los-angeles-times/ "Cary Grant: Doing What Comes naturally,"
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer
As quoted in Chopin's Letter.
Source: Chopin's Letter (1988) by Henryk Opieński,E. L. Voynich, p. 4