Washington Square Quotes

#1. I hardly knew what to do. I wanted, of course, to rush down to Washington Square and grip the poor blighter silently by the hand; and then, thinking it over, I hadn't the nerve. Absent treatment seemed the touch. I gave it him in waves.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. One afternoon, she went to Washington Square

Susan Wiggs

#3. And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#4. I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

Antonia Fraser

#5. I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square.

Harry Golden

#6. In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called "places.

O. Henry

#7. In school, I was an underachiever.

Henry Winkler

#8. Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the moral landscape of the world, but instead a group of Hebrew slaves, it would have seemed the ultimate absurdity.

Sheila Heti

#9. For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#10. Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.

Vladimir Putin

#11. Washington, or as I like to call it, 68 square miles surrounded by reality.

Scott Walker

#12. Practice with your fingers and you need all day. Practice with your mind and you will do as much in 1 1/2 hours.

Leopold Auer

#13. What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.

Jessica Maxwell

#14. Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

Tom Clancy

#15. I'd gone from unapologetically commit-o-phobic to rom-com heroine in a few months

Maris Black

#16. When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?

Jeremy Rifkin

#17. The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

Don Marquis

#18. Washington, DC is 12 square miles bordered by reality.

Andrew Johnson

#19. The thing to do when you're impatient," he proceeded, "is to turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is there watching you.

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