THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS: Favorite Lines Thus Far
"...there was added to the prestige of his gilded position that diabolical glamour which must inevitably attend a boy who has told a minister to go to hell."
"...Mrs. Henry Franklin Foster had long ago gone the way of all wisdom, having stepped out of the Midland town, unquestionably into heaven - a long step, but not beyond her powers."
HERE'S ANOTHER ONE:
"Lucy gave the horizon a long look, but offered no comment."
posted by Dale @ 6:41 PM
1 Comments:
Those are great! Especially the one about "one who has told a minister to go to hell..."
My contributions:
"They lacked style, but also lacked pretentiousness, and whatever does not pretend at all has style enough." (touche)
" 'Gossip is never fatal, Georgie,' he said, 'until it is denied. Gossip goes on about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.' "
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