Date: 1871-2, 1874
"Poor Dorothea! compared with her, the innocent-looking Celia was knowing and worldly-wise; so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it."
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1871-2, 1874
"In the beginning of dinner, the party being small and the room still, these motes from the mass of a magistrate's mind fell too noticeably."
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1871-2, 1874
"My mind is something like the ghost of an ancient, wandering about the world and trying mentally to construct it as it used to be, in spite of ruin and confusing changes."
preview | full record— Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Date: 1926
"In the goods yard at Paddington she had almost pounced on the clue, the clue to the secret country of her mind."
preview | full record— Warner, Sylvia Townsend (1893-1978)
Date: 1957
"'Really, your mind--' ... 'Like a sink, my nephew Raymond used to say,' Miss Marple agreed, nodding her head briskly. 'But I always told him, sinks are necesary domestic equipment and actually very hygienic.'"
preview | full record— Christie, Agatha (1890-1976)
Date: 1999
"I love my brother dearly, but his mind is like a sieve."
preview | full record— Budnitz, Judy (b. 1973)