WIST Quotations

Carriger, Gail -- Timeless (2012)

Dave — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 03:39:13 +0000

“A man’s virility is in his beard,” he insisted.

To which Alexia replied, “And a woman’s is in her décolletage. Yet you don’t see me allowing mine to get out of control, now, do you?”

“If wishes were balloons,’ was his only response.

Gail Carriger (b. 1976) American archaeologist, author [pen name of Tofa Borregaard]
Timeless (2012)

Keats, John -- “Endymion” Book 1, l. 1 (1818)

Dave — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:55:59 +0000

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.

John Keats (1795-1821) English poet
“Endymion” Book 1, l. 1 (1818)
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Berlin, Irving -- “A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” (1919)

Dave — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:51:01 +0000

A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day,
Just like the strain of a haunting refrain,
She’ll start upon a marathon
And run around your brain.

Irving Berlin (1888-1989) American songwriter [b. Isidore Beilin]
“A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” (1919)

Stout, Rex -- “Frame-Up for Murder,” ch. 1 [Archie] (1958)

Dave — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:17:47 +0000

I had first noticed her in the lobby of the Churchill, because she rated a glance as a matter of principle — the principle that a man owes it to his eyes to let them rest on attractive objects when there are any around.

Rex Stout (1886-1975) American writer
“Frame-Up for Murder,” ch. 1 [Archie] (1958)