329 Quotes About Opening-lines

The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.

Imprisoned on this island, I would say, imprisoned on this island

It was as black in the closet as old blood.

There are not many people—and as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again—there are not, I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church.

In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department.

Today an extraordinary adventure took place.

Today an extraordinary adventure took place

Off and on: one week there, the next nowhere to be seen, that’s how my dead began...

Through the gates of the inn in the provincial town of N drove a rather handsome, smallish spring britzka, of the sort driven around in by bachelors: retired lieutenant colonels, staff captains, landowners possessed of some hundred peasant souls—in short, all those known as gentlemen of the middling sort.