#mr

It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#humour #mr-darcy #snooty #wuthering-heights #trees

I will only add, God bless you. ↗

— Jane Austen

#blessings #darcy #jane-austen #mr-darcy #prejudice

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes. ↗

— Stephen E. Ambrose

#heroism #war #heroism

But I'll be fine. I'll be with Tod. He's a good guy, you know." He just hides it under all the sarcasm and curls. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#mr-cavanaugh #soul-screamers #tod #sarcasm

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#incompetence #mr-prosser #humor

And always John, who is my own Gilbert Blythe, my real life Mr. Darcy, and the love of my life. ↗

— Lindsay Eland

#gilbert-blythe #lindsay #love #mr-darcy #life

When we pull away, he rests his hand on my thigh pressed next to his and we ride like that for a long time; the only time he moves his hand is to take better control of a sharp curve or to adjust the music, but he always puts it right back. And I always want him to. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#edge-of-never #love #road-trip #love

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#generation #good #his #immortal #mr

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#iron #kind #lady #mrs #she

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen