Harthouse Quotes

#1. There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

Charles Dickens

#2. That's the past tense, Tom,' returned Mr. James Harthouse, striking the ash from his cigar with his little finger. 'We are in the present tense, now.' 'Verb

Charles Dickens

#3. Now you see, Tom," said Mr. Harthouse ( ... ); "every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the rest of my fellow-creatures.

Charles Dickens

#4. There is no pretending I love you and I will love you until you die. And if there is life after that, I will love you then.

Jace Wayland

#5. I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person.

Claudia Rankine

#6. Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

James G. Frazer

#7. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. Has anybody here ever been driving along in their car, smoking a cigarette, and you flick it out the window, and you drive for a few miles, and you start to smell smoke, and you turn around, and you look in the backseat, and grandma is playing with herself?

Doug Benson