Prose Quotes

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

~ George Orwell

Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He had a look of wariness, which could change when he felt relaxed or happy, which was not often in these difficult days, into a smile of amused friendliness and pleasure which aroused feelings of warmth, and something more, in many women.

~ A.s. Byatt

I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.

~ Chris Howard

Later when they would mention, they would say, and everyone would know, but not nearly as well as they meant.

~ Mikl Paul

The punter sweated on top of Marina, his lips all over her young body, his tongue slipping out from rows of crooked teeth, pushing hungrily from between his shrivelled lips like a clam from a shell, a bottom feeder searching for salty nutrition.

~ Tom Conrad

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

~ William C. Bryant

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

~ James Schuyler