72 Quotes About Howards-end

Tibby is moderately a dear now," said Helen."There! I knew you'd say that in the end. Of course he's a dear.

The Wilcoxes were not lacking in affection; they had it royally, but they did not know how to use it. It was the talent in the napkin, and, for a warm-hearted man, Charles had conveyed very little joy. As he watched his father shuffling up the road, he had a vague regret—a wish that something had been different somewhere—a wish (though he did not express it thus) that he had been taught to say 'I' in his youth.

Mrs. Munt did not see, and indeed Margaret was making a most questionable statement—that any emotion, any interest once vividly aroused, can wholly die.

Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards.

In the presence of these women Leonard had arrived, and he spoke with a flow, an exultation, that he had seldom known.

But this place has wonderful powers.""What do you mean?""I don't know.""Because I probably agree with you.""It kills what is dreadful and makes what is beautiful live.

The mystery, like so many mysteries, was explained.

She was not a Christian in the accepted sense; she did not believe that God had ever worked among us as a young artisan.

You've not been content to dream, as we have.