The Little White Horse Quotes
"Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people – those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food."
"For Maria was one of your true aristocrats; the perfection of the hidden things was even more important to her than the outward show."
"But gradually all that had changed. Her tenderness, when Maria was in any way afflicted, had become eager."
"Wiggins’s beauty was of that high order that can only be described by that tremendous trumpet-sounding word ‘incomparable’."
"For Wiggins was not one of those emotional dogs who let themselves go with quivering whiskers, hot nose, and dribbling tongue."
"Maria, though decidedly vain and much too inquisitive, was possessed of the fine qualities of honour and courage and fastidiousness."
"But they did not grumble at all, because True Gentlewomen never grumble."
"And the boots she had on today were calculated to raise the lowest spirits."
"The brave soul and the pure spirit shall with a merry and a loving heart inherit the kingdom together."
"Cleanliness comes next to godliness, eh, Maria? That’s always been the opinion of Merryweathers, anyway."
"Sometimes, a story that one hears starts one off doing things that one would not have had to do if one had not heard it."
"Violence being useless, he decided to try guile."
"But though he possessed courage and joviality, he was by no means an entirely virtuous man."
"The little Moon Princess, possessed of a truthful and a pure spirit, had not before realized the depth of her husband’s guile."
"He was heartbroken, and he never ceased to mourn for the little Moon Princess."
"Every morning at dawn the white horses from the sea sweep inland in a joyous wild gallop that nobody sees because they are so quickly gone again."
"They say in the village that on the day They can be persuaded not to be wicked any more Sir Wrolf will smile."
"The Moon Princess was called the Moon Princess because she was so silvery fair, with silvery fair hair and silvery grey eyes and a skin like milk."
"Theirs since the days of chrism, the oil and salt and wine, the great bells wait in silence through the long death of night."
"All color is of the sun, and good. And pink is the color of dawn and sunset, the link between day and night."
"I always like to be prepared for more guests than are actually expected."
"The mere suggestion of meanness, upon a great occasion, is much to be deprecated."
"The bodily sustenance of the inner man as well as the aesthetic satisfaction of the outward eye should be on a lavish scale."
"In the future, Sir Benjamin, you will find me all that a neighbour should be."
"We will let bygones be bygones and start afresh from today."
"The sound of welcoming voices had sunk into the very walls of the house."
"The older you get the more clearly you remember the times and the more dearly you love the people."
"And all the days that followed were happy too, and the months and the years."
"He was the brave soul and she was the pure spirit of their family motto, and one in heart, merry and loving, they inherited the kingdom together."