Author of quotes: Ethel Lillian Voynich. Page 3

- Oh, Renee, Renee, you will forever remain a child!
- A polite hint that I will always be a donkey?
- Let's say - cherub.

- <...> And if so, how do you avoid censorship?
- I'm not going to avoid it. I just stop to count it.

We, crippled, do not boast of their ugliness, the woman flaunts his folly.

The surest way to catch is to convince yourself to failure in advance.

All mechanical habits are bad and slavish.

He is either an uncommonly clever knave, or the greatest ass.

Y - you know, I think I would be d-a precious find for Riccardo if he had to treat me then. After all, he, like a true surgeon, awfully fond of broken bones, and I at that time was broken, it seems that everything that can be broken, with the exception of the neck.
- And your courage.

... You, of course, you'll tell her about this? (on the death of He)
- No, I can't! You better directly ask me to go and kill her. How do I tell her how?
Martini closed his eyes with his hands. And not opening them felt like a startled mule. He lifted his head. Gemma stood in the doorway.
Did you hear Cerise? she said. - It's all over. He was shot.

You put them [the handcuffs] on a fresh wound?
- P of course, your Eminence. Fresh wounds to exist. Old little use: they will just whine and not burn you as fire.

- So, you blamed the importation of firearms. Why is it you needed?
- UB-kill rats.
- Terrible response. Do you think rats those people who do not share your beliefs?
N some of them.

Colonel, I can't get up and strangle you, but my teeth are pretty strong, so keep your throat away.

Life I need only to fight with the Church. I'm not a man, I knife! Giving me life, you sanctify the knife.

If you ever meet a man and he'll show you... unlike you and others... one of those rare people who are among us as a dazzling star... try not to forget that knowing such people is a great happiness, but to love them dangerous.

- You sent to the firing squad of recruits, Colonel! Let's see, maybe I have something happens... Well, great! On the left flank, keep the gun higher! It was a carbine, not a pan! Well, now, ready!.. Download today!...
- Fire! - Shouted the Colonel, rushing forward.
It was impossible to endure this man he commanded his execution.