Famous quotes containing the words single, reached and/or number:
“And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove’s,
The one only dwelling on earth that she loves.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends’ boyfriends—and he accepts it.”
—Larry McMurtry (b. 1936)
“I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)