Appearance Minor Characters

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

    “By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)