Tag: Selected Quotes

“He was the kind of man who thought that he never gave offense because people liked him enough to forgive him for a great deal.”

The Man in the Dark, p. 173

“While he was coming up the head table, she had decided, firmly and with all the resolve she had that she would be courteous, friendly, and tart . . . She felt as though she were on the verge of a fencing match, and she had been flexing her rapier.”

The Man in the Dark, p. 170

“Taking one thing with another, the line-up of the head table, with the notable exception of Savannah, was a well-groomed collection of dignified eyesores. Savannah kind of stood out and a number of people had already decided instinctively where they would be looking during the course of the speeches and toasts.”

The Man in the Dark, p. 167

“Lambeth tried to court her last year and was turned down flat, flatter than a pancake made with really thin batter.”

The Man in the Dark, p. 146

“‘But if you failed to ask it, you might miss out on the fact that the pulchritudinous Miss Westmoreland lives there.’ He pronounced it pulchritoooodinous, savoring the word as it came out, treating it like it was a butterscotch lozenge.”

The Man in the Dark, pp. 145-146

“Her worries fluttered for a moment, the way her parakeet had done once in her hand for a moment. But she just put it back in the cage, and dropped the cloth over the top of it.”

The Man in the Dark, p. 141

“A certain kind of beauty flourishes when another kind is diminished.”

The Man in the Dark, p. 139

“Lambeth actually knew how to be charming if he had a willing audience. If anybody was watching who knew what actual charm was, the effect was totally other than charming, but whenever someone wanted to be charmed—as Elizabeth most certainly did—he knew how to ladle it out of the pot.”

The Man in the Dark, p. 138

“Many good men do not suspect the cause of the antipathy directed at them because they are too humble to think they might be the object of anything like envy.”

The Man in the Dark, p. 134