Lucas Malet quotes

Lucas Malet quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.”
-- Lucas Malet

Source : Lucas Malet (1885). “Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel”

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“Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow. -The seed springs up so readily, and the blossoms open so soon with such a brave show, especially at first. But when the time of flowers has passed, what as to the fruit?”
-- Lucas Malet

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“He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. -But, then, lovers have a proverbial power of balancing inverted pyramids, going to sea in sieves, and successfully performing other kindred feats impossible to a faithless and unbelieving generation.”
-- Lucas Malet

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“Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.”
-- Lucas Malet

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