“You've got to see Venice," he began. "You've got to see a city of slender towers and white domes, sleeping in the water like a mass of water lilies. You've got to see dark waterways, mysterious threads of shadow, binding all these flowers of stone together.””
“There comes a time when a mother loves her son, because he is a man just as the man she has loved.””
“One is so much wiser when one is young--one is so much younger when one is old.””
“The need for amusement is growing every day. The supply is increasing with the demands. They tell me the Earl's Court Exhibition in London is drawing hundreds of people there every night. New theatres are being built. I wonder sometimes when I hear these things how long it will be before there is scarcely a home left in England. Life does not amuse people so much as it once did. in time the only things that will amuse them will be amusements. In time we shall come to be a great congregation of people, struggling, fighting, straining to forget we are alive.””
E. Temple ThurstonE. Temple Thurston was an English novelist and playwright known for his contributions to early 20th-century literature. Born in 1879, he began his career in journalism before transitioning to fiction,...