ENG B1A: Quotes

"But now let us part. My dear, good, precious one, let us part!"

Anna Sergeyevna

"Her features dropped and faded, and her long hair hung down sadly on either side of her face; she grew pensive and her dejected pose was that of a Magdalene in a picture by an old master."

Anna Sergeyevna

"Time passes quickly, and yet it is so dull here!"

Anna Sergeyevna

"Truly human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightening."

Buddhist Priest

"What do you want me to do?"__________demanded. "Put 'em all in jail?"

Campbell

"I saw you through the door. You looked like you were ready to crack the Siegfried line--singlehanded."

Cathy Bleeker

"Now, Daddy--you're the only professional here. They're just acting like little tin soldiers out on a spree."

Cathy Bleeker

"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. I wish you and I could be on better terms."

Charles Wales

"No, no more," he said to the waiter. "What do I owe you?"

Charles Wales

_________is a clever enough director and producer but very English and pompous.

Clement Howell

"Out with it,"___________said, addressing Baines with professional ferocity, "who is she?"

Constable

"Give it up now, my darling,"_________said. "You've had your cry; that's enough. Let us have a talk now, we'll think of something."

Dmitry Gurov

"Why should I stop respecting you, darling?"

Dmitry Gurov

"Ah-h-h!"_________wagged his finger roquishly at Charlie. "Ah-h-h!"

Duncan Schaeffer

"We came to invite you out to dinner. Lorraine and I insist that all this shishi, cagey business 'bout your address got to stop."

Duncan Schaeffer

"You oughtn't to,"_______________said, "with the boys here."

Emmy

It was a young, unusual face, but not in the least pretty.

Eve Harrington

"Keeps the boys fit, too. The youth of America. Our hope for the future."

Gar Simpson

"That should take care of the damages," he said.

Gar Simpson

"We'd like to have as much of CA as possible opened up to us."

Gar Simpson

_________was repressing, openly, and with pride, a vast sparkling ecstasy.

Gar Simpson

"Yes, I've been married, but I'm not married now. My husband is dead."

Honoria Wales

"God, it's so pathetic!"

Hubba Hubba

"That's obviously him."

Hubba Hubba

"We should call him and pretend to be the redhead!"

Hubba Hubba

"Briefly and simply stated, what you're running is a private army."

Joel Bleeker

"Get your men together," he said. "And get them out of here."

Joel Bleeker

"May I ask you what the hell your standards are?"

Joel Bleeker

"I know this thing isn't altogether your fault, but I can't have her go to pieces about it. I'm afraid we'll have to let it slide for six months; I can't take the chace of working her up to this state again."

Lincoln Peters

"This has been a hard dary for her. You know how strongly she feels...When a woman gets an idea in her head."

Lincoln Peters

"But I remember once when you hammered on my door at four A.M. I was enough of a good sport to give you a drink."

Lorraine Quarrles

"Everybody seems os old lately, but I don't feel old a bit. Couldn't we get together some time today for old time's sake?"

Lorraine Quarrles

"Oh, what a nice little boy! Come here, little boy."

Lorraine Quarrles

"I don't want you pestering me every night."

Margola Cranston

She was tiny, with the childish figure of a Botticelli angel.

Margola Cranston

"How long are you going to stay sober, Charlie?"

Marion Peters

"How much you were responsible for Helen's death, I don't know. It's something you'll have to square with your own conscience."

Marion Peters

"When she was dying she asked me to look out for Honoria. If you hadn't been in a sanitarium then, it might have helped matters."

Marion Peters

"A spot of drink at half-past eleven, gives an appetite for chop and does no man any harm."

Mr. Baines

"Oh yes, that's who she is; she's my niece."

Mr. Baines

"We'll have supper, anyway,"________said. "She can't harm that."

Mr. Baines

"Oh, Master Philip, that's why you haven't any appetite. You've been buying sweet cakes. That's not what your pocket money's for."

Mrs. Baines

"Such deceit. I'll settle with you myself when I've found them. You'll smart; I'll see you smart."

Mrs. Baines

"Tell Mrs. Baines, Master Philip. You love your Mrs. Baines, don't you?"

Mrs. Baines

"Where are they?" she whispered. "Where are they?"

Mrs. Baines

"She was a tall, wreck woman with dark eyebrows, stately and dignified and, as she said of herself, intellectual."

Mrs. Gurov

I'm the type of female who only feels at home dressed in a Dache hat at the Stork Club or El Morocco.

Mrs. Lloyd Richards

But_________was a warrior.

Norma Many Horses

"Emmy,"_________said, "Emmy."

Philip

"I hate you."

Philip

"No,"__________said, "no. I won't go. You can't make me go. I'll fight. I won't see her."

Philip

"More tarts, I suppose."

Rose

"You tols me to take him and now just because something interesting... I don't expect justice from a man..."

Rose

"I've brought up six. I know 'em through and through. You can't teach me anything about children."

Sergeant

"At last I could satisfy my desire for her without taking her husband's life."

Tajomaru

"I managed to strike down her small sword without drawing my own. The most spirited woman is defenseless without a weapon."

Tajomaru

"That's all my confession. I know that my head will be hung in chains anyway, so put me down for the maximum penalty."

Tajomaru

"Despite this we remained friends..."

The Harvey Pekar Name Story

"I married at an early age."

The Harvey Pekar Name Story

"The call caused me to wonder what sort of person hes was, of course I had now way of knowing..."

The Harvey Pekar Name Story

"Then one day a person I worked with expressed her sympathy to me concerning what she thought wa sthe death of my father."

The Harvey Pekar Name Story

"All was silent after that. No, I heard someone crying. Untying the rest of my bonds, I listened carefully, and I noticed that it was my own crying."

The Murdered Man

"I took it up and stabbed it into my breast. a bloody lump rose from my mouth, but I didn't feel any pain. When my breast grew cold, everything was as silent as the dead in their graves."

The Murdered Man

"Despising me, his mom said only, "Kill me." Neither conscious nor unconscious, I stabbed the small sword through the lilac-colored kimono into his breast."

The Woman Who Had Come to the Shimizu Temple

"I stabbed my own throats with the small sword, threw myself into a pond at the foot of the mountain, and tried to kill myself in many ways."

The Woman Who Had Come to the Shimizu Temple

"I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight. Also, your mother was just in here crying."

Thomas Builds-the-Fire

"Just one time when I'm telling a story somewhere, wy don't you stop and listen?"

Thomas Builds-the-Fire

Once, he jumped off the roof of the tribal school and flapped his arms like a crazy Eagle.

Thomas Builds-the-Fire

__________walked through the corridors of the trival school by himself. Nobody wanted to be anywhere near him because of all those stories. Story after story.

Thomas Builds-the-Fire

"That's a good one. I wish I could be a warrior."

Victor

When_________was twelve, he stepped into an underground wasp's nest.

Victor

_________sat at his kitchen table. He counted his one hundred dollars again and again. He knew he needed more to make it to Phoenix and back.

Victor

"I found only a rope at the root of a cedar nearby. And...well, in addition to a rope, I found a comb."

Woodcutter

"No, the blood was no longer running. The wound had dried up, I believe. And also, a gad-fly was stuck fast there, hardly noticing my footsteps."

Woodcutter