247 Quotes About First-sentence

In M---, an important town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O---, a lady of unblemished reputation and the mother of several well-brought-up children, inserted the following announcement in the newspapers: that she had, without knowledge of the cause, come to find herself in a certain situation; that she would like the father of the child she was expecting to disclose his identity to her; that she was resolved, out of consideration to her family, to marry him.

I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

I might be the villain of this story.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

All this happened, more or less.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.