And let you never speak a word more in his favour, or you'll disown your own father, likewise, and what your father says of him he'll have to come to say of you.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

“Let me tell you,” she said emphatically, “when you want to stage that sorta party stay away from liquor, and when you want to get tight stay away from bedrooms.”
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

This letter, which arrived by the very same ship which brought out Lady O'Dowd's box of millinery from London (and which you may be sure Dobbin opened before any one of the other packets which the mail brought him), put the receiver into such a state of mind that Glorvina, and her pink satin, and everything belonging to her became perfectly odious to him.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

In the name of all you hold sacred, tell me the meaning of those four letters, and why you usually omit them.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Idiot, you have no sense, and forget how we two alone of all the gods fared hardly round about Ilius when we came from Jove's house and worked for Laomedon a whole year at a stated wage and he gave us his orders.
— from The Iliad by Homer

You will be good enough to leave a note here for Hamid Khan, explaining that you have been called out on business, or pleasure, or whatever you like; so that Hamid Khan is to meet you at the Belgrave at two for luncheon, after which you will seal his papers.
— from The Cardinal Moth by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

Come, old fellow, look alive, will you?’ ‘Softly, softly; don’t interrupt public justice,’ said he, with a most provoking composure.
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

From long ago, when you were little more than a boy––you remember, don't you, the long days at the Rectory?
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Above all, you must consider your future life, and what you will do with yourself, and you must dispose of your property accordingly.
— from Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I had taken a couple of favourite books along with me, as every traveller must who will be away from libraries and would yet change literary diet.
— from Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip by Agnes Herbert

“I wish I could die quick here by the roadside, dear Martin, for living along with you won’t be no happier than I am this moment.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

"Do you mean to tell me that you care for life after what you have confessed to me?" he demanded.
— from The Dreadnought Boys in Home Waters by John Henry Goldfrap

'Tis man's worst deed To let the "things that have been" run to waste, And in the unmeaning present sink the past: In whose dim glass even now I faintly read Old buried forms, and faces long ago, Which you, and I, and one more, only know.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Charles Lamb

You were provided with every necessary, and, if one may judge from your appearance, with a few luxuries as well; you were sent down to Colchester--all at our expense--and a place was found for you in Lady Denyer's household.
— from Confessions of a Young Lady: Her Doings and Misdoings by Richard Marsh