The least opposition to any of his ideas makes the blusterer rise in his might, and bellow, and roar, and bellow again, till the whole company is in something like the condition of Æneas’s fleet after Eolus has done his worst.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Miss Pankhurst as a despot might be as virtuous as Queen Victoria, and she certainly would find it difficult to be as wicked as Queen Bess, but the point is that, good or bad, she would be irresponsible—she would not be governed by a rule and by a ruler.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

There are only two ways of governing: by a rule and by a ruler.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

I have seen some who have taken it ill when they have been told that they looked well, and that their pulse was good; restrain their smiles, because they betrayed a recovery, and be angry, at their health because it was not to be lamented: and, which is a great deal more, these were not women.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The King, quite provoked, followed him hastily, but they had hardly taken their places facing one another, and the whole Court had only just had time to rush out upon the balconies to watch what was going on, when suddenly the sun became as red as blood, and it was so dark that they could scarcely see at all.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

But the truth is that both have the same claim on our impartial attention, both are real, and both are important to the metaphysician.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The most fateful point of difference between being a rationalist and being a pragmatist is now fully in sight.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Those skins be as red as blood, and they shine so bright against the sun, that unnethe no man may behold them.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Some buns are rich; All buns are nice. 55.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

A hasty drawing back always resulted, accompanied by angry yelps and frightened snarls when a well-aimed brand struck and scorched a too daring animal.
— from White Fang by Jack London

It is true the scenic representations in the decline of the Roman empire, as they are described to us, appear to have been as rude and barbarous as those of the Chinese.
— from Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

"Yes, just like a thumb-nail; and so they go on working and working at it until it gets as big and round and bright as it is to-night."
— from The Chronicles of the Imp: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

in the Belvedere at Rome, and by Antonio da Sangallo for Pope Clement VII.
— from The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) by Giorgio Vasari

But such was the infatuation or prejudice of the French ministers, that Bussy, slighted in the new arrangements, was left, unnoticed and unhonoured, to submit to the commands and bear the insults of an arrogant superior, whose jealousy of his fame and popularity was increased into perfect fury at the attentions shown him by all ranks, and by a memorial from the six colonels
— from The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, Vol. 2 (of 3) Collected from the Family Papers Communicated by the Earl of Powis by John Malcolm

Thus, Fielding was good, and Rubens; Sir Joshua was good, and so were Richardson and Smollett; so, likewise, Shakespeare was good, and Raphael and Titian were good—these with Milton and Rembrandt, and Burke and Rousseau and Boccaccio; and it was well.
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt

The reach of woodland into which the grove deepened was alluring with the song of hidden brooks and spicy with the breath of pines and hospitable with berry thickets, black and red and blue as the river to which the wood finally gave way.
— from The Vinland Champions by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

To be a parson's son is the natural beginning of an adventurous career; and, if we owe no greater debt to the Church of our fathers, there is always this argument in favour of the Establishment, that most of the men who have done something for our Empire have first opened eyes on this planet in some sleepy old rectory where roses bloom and rooks are blown about the sky.
— from The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' by Harold Begbie

I, the Angular Character, will rise, and in my dealings with this fiend will be as remorseless and bitter as the quintessence of Hate; I will suffer patiently, and mount the steeps of fame, and I will ring the bells at the door of the world till all the peoples wake, and then, then will I launch him down the tide of time in his own true colors—stripped to the centre, and show him to the Ages for the monster that he is.
— from Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph