Mark Brownlow > Mark's Quotes

“Books are the one luxury I deem a necessity. If my purchases lead us into poverty, then at least we will be well-read paupers.”
― Mark Brownlow, Cake and Courtship

“If you remember nothing else of what I say, remember this: When humanity ceases to aspire, it begins to decline.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“If being a gentleman was a guarantee of virtue, the population in this fair land would not be so high.”
― Rose Servitova, A Season at Sanditon

“I have called for tea. There is no situation that is not made better with tea.”
― Rose Servitova, A Season at Sanditon

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal