Stock Characters

Famous quotes containing the words stock and/or characters:

    “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “Of all the characters I have known, perhaps Walden wears best, and best preserves its purity. Many men have been likened to it, but few deserve that honor. Though the woodchoppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, and the Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice-men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the same water which my youthful eyes fell on; all the change is in me.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)