"Real thing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... confess in humility that I myself acquired the habit of intellectual suspicion toward everybody who does try to do any real thing. I find myself unconsciously sneering at young men who are accomplishing things. Yes, and that is not the worst of it; I find myself sneering at myself." That is pathos—a soul doubting, denying itself. Pathos! yes, it ...
— The Young Man and the World • Albert J. Beveridge
... this is the real thing," he explained; "I've had seven years of that in Paris. This is merely a very ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... number of wooden guns, which were painted black, so that, at a distance, they looked exactly like the real thing. Upon his vessel were only six cannon, so when—a short time afterwards—he was chased by a French privateer off the coast of Scotland—he had an excellent opportunity ...
— Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea • Charles H. L. Johnston
... you should drop, simply because you cannot compete with the Morning Post, which gives the real thing in its succulent savagery whilst you can give only a "wouldn't hurt a fly" affectation of it. In religion too you are up against the fact that an editor, like an emperor, must not belong to a sect. Wells is on the ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... not sorry she's going away. Maybe the Lord's sending her hence, either to open her eyes and send her back weary and cloyed with the world she's going into so gaily now, or else to open thine, and show thee plain, stripped of outside glitter, the real thing she is, that thou mayest see what a sorry wife she would make to a Christian man. No, I'm not sorry. And unless I mistake greatly, Tom, the time's coming when thou shalt not be sorry neither. In ...
— The Gold that Glitters - The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender • Emily Sarah Holt
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