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A.E. Coppard
7 quotes
Quotes
- “All the best women are married, yes, they are - to all the worst men' There was an infinite slow caress in her tone but ...”
- “Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the...”
- “The poor wretch, she had given up so much and could yet smile at her trouble. He himself had never surrendered to anythi...”
- “To analyze or assess a person's failings or deficiencies,' he declared to himself, 'is useless, not because such blemish...”
- “Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with...”
- “Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")”
- “Holiness was always something richly dim.”