The forsyte saga
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NOTABLE QUOTATIONS
“Human nature, under its changing pretensions and clothes, is and ever will be very much a Forsyte, and might, after all, be a much worse animal.” (Preface, p.viii) “But this long tale is no scientific study of a period; it is rather an intimate incarnation of the disturbance that Beauty effects in the lives of men.” (Preface, p.viii) “When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died - but no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalized persons who resent encroachments on their property.” (Book One, Part I, ch.1, p.4) “To have doubted their Christianity would have caused them both pain and surprise. Some of them paid for pews, thus expressing in the most practical form their sympathy with the teachings of Christ.” (Book One, Part I, ch.1, p.16) “It was pleasant to think that in the after life he could get more for things than he had given.” (Book One, Part I, ch.2, p.20) “His mind, where very little took place from morning till night, was the junction of two curiously opposite emotions, a lingering and sturdy satisfaction that he had made his own way and his own fortune, and a sense that a man of distinction should never have been allowed to soil his mind with work.” (Book One, Part I, ch.3, p.35) “In this world people couldn’t look for affection unless they paid for it.” (Book One, Part I, ch.7, p.81) “‘Pride comes before a fall!’ In accordance with this, the greatest of Nature’s ironies, the Forsyte family had gathered for a last proud pageant before they fell.” (Book One, Part I, ch.9, p.97) “On just such a day as this Soames has got from Irene the promise he had asked her for so often. Seated on the fallen trunk of a tree, he had promised for the twentieth time that if their marriage were not a success, she should be as free as if she had never married him!” (Book One, Download 222.6 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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