Book Quotes Flashcards
narrator intervention #2: “methinks”
a reply must in civility be made to a certain voice which methinks I hear, that … exclaims: How unreal all this is!
Chap. 33
modalization
BG “stumped out of sight, probably on much the same errand as the rest.”
Chap 3
last sentence
Something further may follow from this masquerade.”
cosmopolitan quality of the Fidele
in one cosmopolitan and confident tide.
Chap. 2
riddle
The entire ship is a riddle.
Chap 22. (Pitch)
actors
Yes, don’t you both perform acts? To do, is to act; so all doers are actors.
Grey-coat
Chap. 6
nature as inconsistent
“If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has.”
Chap. 14
Shakespeare
“Shakespeare has got to be a kind of deity.”
Chap. 30
Polonius
“how you fly out against this unfortunate Polonius – a being that never was, nor will be.”
Chap. 30
point of story-telling
“Of course not; it is a story which I told with the purpose of every story-teller – to amuse.”
Chap. 35
Egbert about the China Aster story
I wish I could do so in my own words, but unhappily the original story-teller here has so tyrannized over me, that it is quite impossible for me to repeat his incidents without sliding into his style.
Chap. 39
documentary proof
any documentary proof, any plain paper about him, attesting that his case was not a spurious one
Chap. 3
double meaning of words - shorter
Certain? Is it so certain you are going to lose?
Chapter 43
stage directions
He rises, book in hand, quits the cabin and enters upon a sort of corridor
Chap. 15
comic Charlie
pushing back his chair as from a suddenly-disclosed man-trap or crater
Chap. 31
