Barting Quotes & Sayings

Are they not fresh and beautiful?" [Watson] cried ...
Holmes shook his head gravely.
" ... You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed bu their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed here ... They always filled me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson ... that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beauty of the countryside ... But the reason is obvious. The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. — Arthur Conan Doyle

With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears. — John Milton

I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint. — Charlotte Bronte

You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing. — Tom Robbins

I am very much in love with no one in particular. — Ezra Miller

Can you not see the numerous designs made by God as signs, similitudes, or analogies of resurrection? He has placed them in every era, the alteration of day and night, even in the coming and going of clouds. — Said Nursi

I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, 'Well done: you've proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.' — Cory Booker