"Consolation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 1848, seldom show that energy of sympathy of which we have been speaking, and these observations illustrate our point. We can hardly think that anything was ever said about the great civil war in America, so curiously far-fetched as the following reflection:—'My best consolation is that an example on so tremendous a scale of the need for the education of mankind through the affections and sentiments, as a basis for true development, will have a strong influence on all thinkers, and be a check to the arid narrow antagonism ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) - The Life of George Eliot • John Morley
... last topic of consolation in a broad, hearty, hilarious tone, like a trombone impregnated with ...
— White Lies • Charles Reade
... after this effort at consolation he came face to face with Miss Higglesby-Browne. I suppose in the stress of surprising and capturing the camp he had not been struck with her peculiarities. Just now, between the indignity of her captive state and the insubordination of Aunt Jane, Miss Browne's aspect was considerably ...
— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon
... ray of consolation Sustains me, very feeble though it be: There are two who still escape infatuation, My friend ...
— The Scarlet Gown - being verses by a St. Andrews Man • R. F. Murray
... was roused out of himself. He looked at his companion with appreciation. "At least you can have the consolation of knowing you have honestly tried," he ...
— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge
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