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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience..." — Mark Twain
Simple pleasures. That’s the good life.
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‘In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta. There was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle cooing of pigeons in the tops of the elms.’
- A. A. Milne, The Red House Mystery
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‘In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta. There was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle cooing of pigeons in the tops of the elms.’
- A. A. Milne, The Red House Mystery
#AAMilne #TheRedHouseMystery #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well.”
- Stendhal, The Red and the Black
#Stendhal #TheRedAndTheBlack #19thCentury #FrenchLiterature #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well.”
- Stendhal, The Red and the Black
#Stendhal #TheRedAndTheBlack #19thCentury #FrenchLiterature #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“I adore you, I hate you, I offend you, I ask your pardon, I admire you, I blush for my admiration: in a word, I have nothing of tranquillity or reason left about me.”
- Madame De La Fayette, The Princess of Cleves
#MadameDeLaFayette #ThePrincessofCleves #HistoricalRomance #Histodon #FrenchLiterature #17thCentury #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“I adore you, I hate you, I offend you, I ask your pardon, I admire you, I blush for my admiration: in a word, I have nothing of tranquillity or reason left about me.”
- Madame De La Fayette, The Princess of Cleves
#MadameDeLaFayette #ThePrincessofCleves #HistoricalRomance #Histodon #FrenchLiterature #17thCentury #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire.”
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol 🎩 🕯️ ❄️
#NowListening to the wonderful Simon Vance audio edition https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-Christmas-Carol-Audiobook/B005TKXLFW
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“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire.”
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol 🎩 🕯️ ❄️
#NowListening to the wonderful Simon Vance audio edition https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-Christmas-Carol-Audiobook/B005TKXLFW
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“Your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes that is the best help of all.”
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess ⭐ ❄️ 🎄
#FrancesHodgsonBurnett #ALittlePrincess #ChildrensClassics #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes that is the best help of all.”
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess ⭐ ❄️ 🎄
#FrancesHodgsonBurnett #ALittlePrincess #ChildrensClassics #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes that is the best help of all.”
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess ⭐ ❄️ 🎄
#FrancesHodgsonBurnett #ALittlePrincess #ChildrensClassics #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.”
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“Beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.”
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
#OscarWilde #ThePictureOfDorianGray #EnglishLiterature #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
#ENesbit #ThePhoenixAndTheCarpet #Mythology #ChildrensAdventureBooks #ChildrensBooks #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
#ENesbit #ThePhoenixAndTheCarpet #Mythology #ChildrensAdventureBooks #ChildrensBooks #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
#ENesbit #ThePhoenixAndTheCarpet #Mythology #ChildrensAdventureBooks #ChildrensBooks #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”
- E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet
#ENesbit #ThePhoenixAndTheCarpet #Mythology #ChildrensAdventureBooks #ChildrensBooks #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Sing, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned, aye, and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the sea, seeking to win his own life and the return of his comrades.”
- Homer, The Odyssey
#Homer #TheOdyssey #Classics #ClassicalMythology #GreekMythology #EpicPoetry #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity -
“Sing, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned, aye, and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the sea, seeking to win his own life and the return of his comrades.”
- Homer, The Odyssey
#Homer #TheOdyssey #Classics #ClassicalMythology #GreekMythology #EpicPoetry #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity -
"Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”
- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles 🎄
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
"Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”
- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles 🎄
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
"Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”
- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles 🎄
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
"Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is method in his madness.”
- Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles 🎄
#AgathaChristie #HerculePoirot #TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed. Let us take it easy, and let us take it short; we shall be in the thick of the mystery soon, I promise you!”
- Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
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“Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed. Let us take it easy, and let us take it short; we shall be in the thick of the mystery soon, I promise you!”
- Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
#WilkieCollins #TheMoonstone #19thCentury #VictorianLiterature #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed. Let us take it easy, and let us take it short; we shall be in the thick of the mystery soon, I promise you!”
- Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
#WilkieCollins #TheMoonstone #19thCentury #VictorianLiterature #ClassicDetectiveFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“My soul would sing of metamorphoses.
But since, o gods, you were the source of these
bodies becoming other bodies, breathe
your breath into my book of changes: may
the song I sing be seamless as its way
weaves from the world's beginning to our day.”- Ovid, Metamorphoses
#Ovid #Metamorphoses #GreekMythology #RomanPoetry #ClassicalLiterature #ClassicalPoetry #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“My soul would sing of metamorphoses.
But since, o gods, you were the source of these
bodies becoming other bodies, breathe
your breath into my book of changes: may
the song I sing be seamless as its way
weaves from the world's beginning to our day.”- Ovid, Metamorphoses
#Ovid #Metamorphoses #GreekMythology #RomanPoetry #ClassicalLiterature #ClassicalPoetry #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“And now gentlemen … all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?”
- Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
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“And now gentlemen … all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?”
- Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
#AlexandreDumas #Swashbuckler #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #FrenchLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon -
“In the sunken woods that traverse the neighbourhood of the burying-ground the last glimmer failed them, and it became necessary to kindle a match and re-illumine one of the lanterns of the gig. Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body-Snatcher
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“In the sunken woods that traverse the neighbourhood of the burying-ground the last glimmer failed them, and it became necessary to kindle a match and re-illumine one of the lanterns of the gig. Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body-Snatcher
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“In the sunken woods that traverse the neighbourhood of the burying-ground the last glimmer failed them, and it became necessary to kindle a match and re-illumine one of the lanterns of the gig. Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body-Snatcher
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“In the sunken woods that traverse the neighbourhood of the burying-ground the last glimmer failed them, and it became necessary to kindle a match and re-illumine one of the lanterns of the gig. Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body-Snatcher
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“Are you surprised at the knowledge of the law which this way of writing betrays in an ignorant woman? I have been learning, my dear: the Law and the Lady have begun understanding one another.”
- Wilkie Collins, The Law and The Lady
#WilkieCollins #VictorianFiction #VictorianLiterature #19thCenturyLiterature #FemaleSleuths #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“Are you surprised at the knowledge of the law which this way of writing betrays in an ignorant woman? I have been learning, my dear: the Law and the Lady have begun understanding one another.”
- Wilkie Collins, The Law and The Lady
#WilkieCollins #VictorianFiction #VictorianLiterature #19thCenturyLiterature #FemaleSleuths #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“Are you surprised at the knowledge of the law which this way of writing betrays in an ignorant woman? I have been learning, my dear: the Law and the Lady have begun understanding one another.”
- Wilkie Collins, The Law and The Lady
#WilkieCollins #VictorianFiction #VictorianLiterature #19thCenturyLiterature #FemaleSleuths #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
#HGWells #TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau #ScienceFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
#HGWells #TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau #ScienceFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
#HGWells #TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau #ScienceFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau
#HGWells #TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau #ScienceFiction #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
#TheGreatGatsby #FScottFitzgerald #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #DetectiveClassics #AmericanLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
#TheGreatGatsby #FScottFitzgerald #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #DetectiveClassics #AmericanLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. “
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
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“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. “
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
#SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #DetectiveClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. “
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
#SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #DetectiveClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. “
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
#SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #DetectiveClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon
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“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. “
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
#SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle #ClassicBooks #LiteraryClassics #DetectiveClassics #EnglishLiterature #MoncreiffePress #LiteraryQuotes #BookCommunity #Bookish #Bookstodon