"Real life" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... usual poltroon contrasted with the manly and masterful girl, a conjunction of the lioness and the lamb sometimes seen in real life. ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton
... life are conveyed by our senses to the consciousness within us, and stimulate the world of thought and feeling that constitutes our real life. Thought and feeling are very intimately connected, few of our mental perceptions, particularly when they first dawn upon us, being unaccompanied by some feeling. But there is this general division ...
— The Practice and Science Of Drawing • Harold Speed
... own child,' she told him slow; 'you've had a real life. I'm just gettin' to mine—since ...
— Friendship Village • Zona Gale
... they say? I think few of you will be at a loss to guess. Life—real life as well as life in story-books—is full of such shocks and surprises. They are half happy, half unhappy; but they have to be borne. Younger sisters, till their own turns come, are apt to take a ...
— Clover • Susan Coolidge
... tell you no woman could: though you'll say I've told enough. I shall burn with shame when I think of it. I could go on my knees to have your arms round me once. I could kill myself for saying it!—I should feel that I had one moment of real life.—I know I ought to admire you. They say a woman hates if she's refused. I can't: I wish I were able to. I could have helped the Radnors better by staying here and threatening never to go to him unless he swore not to do them injury. He's revengeful. Just as you like. You say ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
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