“ The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge. ”
- Patrick Campbell- Copy
- 721
“ The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily — and perhaps most tellingly — described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit. ”
- Joseph A. Schumpeter- Copy
- 256
“ It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end. ”
- Thomas Edward Brown- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The Polo Lounge is like a fine old mink coat: opulent, dignified and warm. ”
- Bryan Miller- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3K
“ The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country… ”
- Anthony Sampson- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon - Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already - lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb. ”
- Eric Blair- Copy
- 3.5K
“ It even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills. ”
- Paul Gray- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Its origins are ancient but it burgeons with brash modernity, and it lounges upon its delectable shore, halfway between the Israelis and the Syrians, in a posture that no such city, at such a latitude, in such a moment of history, has any reasonable excuse for assuming. ”
- Jan Morris- Copy
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