72 Quotes About Howards-end

Nor am I concerned with duty. I'm concerned with the characters of various people whom we know, and how, things being as they are, things may be made a little better.

Love was so unlike the article served up in books: the joy, though genuine, was different; the mystery an unexpected mystery.

I hope to risk things all my life.""Oh, Margaret, most dangerous.""But after all," she continued with a smile, "there's never any great risk as long as you have money.""Oh, shame! What a shocking speech!""Money pads the edges of things," said Miss Schlegel. "God help those who have none.

The real thing's money and all the rest is a dream.

Well, it is odd and sad that our minds should be such seed-beds, and we without power to choose the seed. But man is an odd, sad creature as yet, intent on pilfering the earth, and heedless of the growths within himself.

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

Oh, my dears, what do you think? You'll never guess. A woman's been here asking me for her husband. Her what?" (Helen was fond of supplying her own surprise.) "Yes, for her husband, and it really is so.

Tibby, for all his defects, had a genuine personality.

Much love. Modified love to Tibby. Love to Aunt Juley; how good of her to come and keep you company, but what a bore.