East Lynne Quotes

“Shakespeare calls jealousy yellow and green; I think it may be called black and white for it most assuredly views white as black, and black as white. The most fanciful surmises wear the aspect of truth, the greatest improbabilities appear as consistent realities.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

“A very pretty woman, tall and slender, was she, and she minced as she walked, and coquetted with her head, and, altogether, contrived to show that she had quite as much vanity as brains.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

“misery marks the countenance worse than sickness.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

“Mr Carlyle has more sense than all the rest of West Lynne put together,’ complacently observed Afy. ‘Living with Richard Hare! why, I’d rather go and live with a scalped red Indian who goes about with his body tattooed in place of clothes, and keeps sixteen wives.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

“Every good thing will come with time that we earnestly seek" said Mr. Carlyle.”
― Ellen Wood, East Lynne

“Never let people talk secrets before children, for be assured that they comprehend a vast deal more than is expedient; the saying "that little pitchers have great ears" is wonderfully true.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

“true love is ever timid;”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

“No luck ever attends runaway marriages;”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

“and, in the ardour of the moment, Mr Jiffin laid himself, his hand, and his cheesemongery at Afy’s feet.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

“Miss Corny sniffed. ‘Pigs may fly: but I never saw them try at it.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

“Miss Carlyle started up. Her spectacles dropped off her nose, and a knitting-box, which she happened to have on her knee, clattered to the ground.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

“What Mr Carlyle was thinking of was best known to himself: his eyes, covered with their drooping eyelids, were cast upon Barbara.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne

“A set of bumber-headed old donkeys!’ was the complimentary interruption of Miss Carlyle.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, East Lynne