His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.
("Uncle Tom's Cabin")
More Quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe:
Human nature is above all things lazy.Harriet Beecher Stowe
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A woman's health is her capital.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Desire Quotes, Literature QuotesBased on Keywords: garnished, transcribe
He who gives love, receives love.
Omar Torrijos Herrera
I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition.
Trevor Dunn
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
Manmohan Singh