I have no regrets in saying this as, in return for your compliment to me, I also find you rather attractive, especially when you look at me as sadly as you are now, although you really have no reason to do so.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Yes, tied much as yours are now—how odd that is.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

You’d better tell me, has Verhovensky accepted your arguments now, or not?” “He has.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The tenure of the priesthood should always be for a year and no longer; and he who will duly execute the sacred office, according to the laws of religion, must be not less than sixty years of age—the laws shall be the same about priestesses.
— from Laws by Plato

" "Are you a nobleman?"
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But of course you are: you are never ill.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

" "And you are never lonely?" asked Leslie abruptly.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

“And you are not offended?”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I honour the refractory, fastidious tongues and stomachs, which have learned to say “I” and “Yea” and “Nay.”
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

in ale in the coach, at the door of the Bull Inn, with the innocent master of the house, a Yorkshireman, for his letting us go through his house, we away to Hercules Pillars, and there eat a bit of meat: and so, with all speed, back to the Duke of York’s house, where mighty full again; but we come time enough to have a good place in the pit, and did hear this new play again, where, though I better understood it than before, yet my sense of it and pleasure was just the same as yesterday, and no more, nor any body else’s about us.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A year ago no one could have imagined that one day the most powerful British ship, built with the single thought of overwhelming an enemy's Dreadnought, would ever be trying to force the Dardanelles.
— from My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer

Sir Jagardis at once froze, ceased talking, and asked, “Are you a newspaper reporter?”
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger

You're too good for them that's about you, and not good enough for them you wish to be like.
— from Alice Wilde: The Raftsman's Daughter. A Forest Romance by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

At least, seem to deserve respect and confidence, and appear to be a worthy novel-reader if actually you are not.
— from The Delicious Vice by Young Ewing Allison

'If you do,' said Ben, 'it will be the death of you as sure as you are now alive.
— from The Launch Boys' Cruise in the Deerfoot by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Jack, who somehow had managed to break his chain, hopped after them, showering the blazing straw on their heads, and yelling as never mortal yelled before.
— from Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

In short, she is her mother’s heir, and you are not.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

"They have taken me away; they have brought me to a strange place; and you are new.
— from A Little Pilgrim in the Unseen by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

"And you are not going to give me away—ah, papa, I could never bear that any more than you; you are taking a partner in the concern," she added with playful tenderness, smiling archly through gathering tears.
— from Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley