"Successful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... crying, too. Everything seemed changed, cold and strange; she had suspected that Cherry's was not a successful marriage; she knew it now, and to resign the adored little sister to the unsympathetic atmosphere of Red Creek, and to miss all the old life and the old associations, made her ...
— Sisters • Kathleen Norris
... doing in the world, must have ideas of him precious different from the adoration of six feet three and a fine seat in the saddle. I see that. There's Baskelett in the Blues; and if I were he I should detest my cuirass and helmet, for if he's half as successful as he boasts—it's ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... high ideal is a successful life. It is not what one does, but what one tries to do, that makes the soul strong and fit for noble career.—E. ...
— The Girl Wanted • Nixon Waterman
... wayfarers, he walked, alone, until he came on a meadow by a little river and a grove of trees, probably cottonwoods.... That was Simon Downige, and that, too, was Hesperia. Yes, he was unbalanced—the old Greek name for beautiful lands. It is a city now, successful and corruptly administered—what always happens to ...
— Linda Condon • Joseph Hergesheimer
... not encountering a furniture-broker's man with a note-book and pencil—by taking long walks. She avoided as far as possible the small area which had once made up the whole of London for her, but even so she was not always successful in escaping from old acquaintances. Once, cutting through Lennox Gardens on her way to that vast, desolate King's Road which stretches its length out into regions unknown to those whose London is the West End, she happened upon Freddie Rooke, ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
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