Tobit

“On my way home, I ran into Miss Hartnell and she detained me at least ten minutes, declaiming in her deep bass voice against the improvidence and ungratefulness of the lower classes. The crux of the matter seemed to be that The Poor did not want Miss Hartnell in their houses. My sympathies were entirely on their side.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“Kaplan Schröder stand bei dem Justizrat, schimpfte mächtig, daß nun der Termin immer näher rücke, an dem das Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch eingeführt werden solle. Kaum zehn Jahre mehr, und aus war’s mit dem Code Napoléon. Und man hatte dasselbe Recht im Rheinlande, wie drüben in Preußen. Gar nicht auszudenken!
„Ja“, seufzte der Justizrat, „und die Arbeit! Was man da alles wieder lernen muß. Als ob man nicht gerade genug zu tun hätte.“ Ihm war’s im Grunde völlig gleichgültig: er würde sich ebensowenig mit der Lektüre des Bürgerlichen beschäftigen, wie er je das Rheinische Recht studiert hatte. Gott sei Dank, seine Examina hatte man ja gemacht.”
― Hanns Heinz Ewers, Alraune

“Sentimental people keep insisting that women go on to have a third baby because they love babies, and cynical people seem to maintain that a woman with two healthy, active children around the house will do anything for ten quiet days in the hospital.”
― Shirley Jackson, Life Among the Savages

“He had three of his five pounds left. He now offered her two. After a little argument she accepted them. She looked at him as though she thought him too wonderful for words, and he rather agreed with her.”
― Patrick Hamilton, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky