Verbose Translator Quotes & Sayings

As he has promised, no harm has come to the Baudelaire orphans in the Reptile Room, but great harm had come to Uncle Monty. — Lemony Snicket

For, not seeing the whole truth, they could not attain to perfect virtue. Some considering nature as incorrupt, others as incurable, they could not escape either pride or sloth, the two sources of all vice; since they cannot but either abandon themselves to it through cowardice, or escape it by pride. — Blaise Pascal

What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not be ashamed - has been very important in not relapsing. — Daniel Baldwin

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough ... — Ralph Vaughan Williams

The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk ... — John Galsworthy