"The absurd" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... half-sovereign which was to have been treasured to his dying day, had shared the fate of the commonplace coins which were destined for Mrs. Bryant and his bootmaker. It was a cruel blow, but Percival saw the absurd side of his misfortune, and laughed aloud in spite ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various
... though the absurd masquerading of words and thoughts had ceased, she was still weighed down with the horror of the dream, which she knew had a corresponding reality still more awful. And there was no adversary to all this anguish; ...
— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird
... on the absurd, contradictory and demoralizing Dogmas and Mysteries of the Christian Religion. Now first translated from the French of Freret, but supposed to be written by Baron Holbach, author of the System of Nature, Christianity Unveiled, Common Sense, Universal Morality, Natural Morality. R. Carlile, ...
— Baron d'Holbach • Max Pearson Cushing
... Levy, with great composure, "you need not threaten me, for what interest can I possibly have in tale-telling to Lord L'Estrange? Again, dismiss from your mind the absurd thought that I hate you. True, you snub me in private, you cut me in public, you refuse to come to my dinners, you'll not ask me to your own; still, there is no man I like better, nor would more willingly serve. When do you want ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... believe," he said to himself, "this is the horse that was in the old villain's head every time he uttered the absurd rime!" ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
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