I am a king, and can procure them for you at your pleasure; and, what will certainly never happen to you in respect of your enemies, I will cease to persecute you as soon as you cease to take a pride in being persecuted.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Her Grace the Duchesse de Carigliano is a friend of the Duchesse de Berri,” he went on, after a pause; “you are sure to see her, will you be so kind as to present me to her, and to take me to her ball on Monday?
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

If ever any scapegrace was trimmed and touched up to perfection, you are, Steerforth.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

One day I found Panurge very much out of countenance, melancholic, and silent; which made me suspect that he had no money; whereupon I said unto him, Panurge, you are sick, as I do very well perceive by your physiognomy, and I know the disease.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

My fath-s. When I was a young man I went to the Spaniards to see ther fassion, I like you talk and will pursue you advice, Since you have given me a meadal.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“Condemn the fault, I pray you, and spare my brother.”
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Naturally enough, in your position, you are shocked and distressed.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Arriving in the Islands with Colonel E. E. Hardin’s regiment, the 29th U. S. Volunteer Infantry, on November 3, 1899, the writer was immediately detailed to the Maccabebee scouts, to take the place of Lieutenant Boutelle, of the regular artillery, a young West Pointer from Oregon, who had been killed a day or two previous, and reported to Major C. G. Starr, General Lawton’s Adjutant-General in the field (whom he had known at Santiago de Cuba the previous year) at San Isidro on or about November 8th.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

And I do not intend to pay you a salary any longer.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

He decked you too with the trappings of wealth, and expected every man to appear before you, with a label written on his forehead, of his souls most secret vice.—He had better have driven you out to beg with an empty wallet, and then perhaps when one had said— Go work —another had hinted— Go steal —and a third had passed you and said nothing, you might possibly have returned to a leopard's skin, and a hut of branches, the man after Mr. Valmont's own heart.
— from Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

“It ‘s a pity; you are strong enough not to care about me at all.
— from Roderick Hudson by Henry James

"You were thinking of the place you are so soon to lose."
— from The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

For, besides the fact that the general standard of morality is so lax that there is much more to censure than to praise, you are sure to be called niggardly if you praise and too censorious if you censure, though you may have been lavish of appreciation and scrupulously guarded in reproach.
— from The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by the Younger Pliny

When you crown a May queen, or go with a May party, you are simply following a custom that the Romans began, and that our remote ancestors in England carried to such lengths, that not only ordinary people, but lords and ladies, and even king and queen, laid aside their state and went "a-Maying" early in the morning, to wash their faces in May dew, and bring home fresh boughs and flowers to deck the May-pole, which reared its flowery crown in every village.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 07, May 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Various

“But it is very wrong to sleep; it can hardly be possible that, with the pain you are suffering, you can manage to do so.”
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

For God has put you as stewards over his family to minister to it.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

“Really, Lady Purrer, you are so kind, you confuse me!
— from Household stories from the Land of Hofer; or, Popular Myths of Tirol by Rachel Harriette Busk

As they were hunting and shouting through the trees a black monkey suddenly appeared on a point of rock and said: ‘Poor sorrowing people, you are seeking your Prince in vain.
— from The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang