Famous quotes containing the words manfred, mann and/or chapter:
“In short, Isabella, since I cannot give you my son, I offer you myself. -- Heavens! cried Isabella ... what do I hear! You, my lord! You! my father in law! the father of Conrad! the husband of the virtuous and tender Hippolita! -- I tell you, said Manfred imperiously, Hippolita is no longer my wife; I divorce her from this hour.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
“One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)
“When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”
—John Donne (c. 15721631)
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