A.E. Coppard

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.”