Appearance Minor Characters

Famous quotes containing the words appearance, minor and/or characters:

    “You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Chopin—Two embalmers at work upon a minor poet ... the scent of tuberoses ... Autumn rain.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life—the first twenty years of it—had about them something semi-fictitious.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)