The American Quotes

…For he admires the squinting Madonna of the young lady with the boyish coiffure, because he thinks the young lady herself uncommonly taking […](1.3)

"Oh, it shall be finished in perfection—in the perfection of perfections!" (1.12)

"But it was very considerate of you to wait, wronged as you have been." (19.8)

To accept his injury and walk away without looking behind him was a stretch of good-nature of which he found himself incapable. (21.1)

They were not sins; they were sufferings. (6.11)

Ask him, then, if he would not like to learn French. (1.41)

The gentleman on the divan was a powerful specimen of an American. (1.2)

At all events I woke up suddenly, from a sleep or from a kind of reverie, with the most extraordinary feeling in the world—a mortal disgust for the thing I was going to do. (2.69)