“I know this, that if I had the luck, or maybe the misfortune," said Dick with a melancholy smile, "to have the woman, it would not be this way with me! - and what in the wide world is a man without a wife? He's no more surely than a bottle without a drop of drink in it, or dancing without music, the left leg of a scissors, or a fishing line without a hook, or any other matter that is in no ways complete.”
Quotes by Thomas Crofton Croker
Thomas Crofton CrokerThomas Crofton Croker was an influential Irish antiquary renowned for his collection of folklore, particularly in his seminal work, 'Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland' (1825-1828). ...