Quotes of Bret Harte - somelinesforyou

“ The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius invoked against all contingent evils, but especially against bears, which, like the fiery dragons of old, seemed to cherish unconquerable hostility to the Holy Church. ("The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo"). ”

- Bret Harte

“ The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Virtue always meets reward,But quicker when it wears a sword. ”

- Bret Harte

“ The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Virtue always meets reward,But quicker when it wears a sword. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. ”

- Bret Harte

“ The delicate thought that cannot find expression,For ruder speech too fair,That, like thy petals, trembles in possession,And scatters on the air. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain, - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain, - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain, - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain, - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. ”

- Bret Harte

“ The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Over the trackless past, somewhere,Lie the lost days of our tropic youth,Only regained by faith and prayer,Only recalled by prayer and plaint,Each lost day has its patron saint! ”

- Bret Harte

“ A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Virtue always meets reward,But quicker when it wears a sword. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain, - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinese is peculiar. ”

- Bret Harte

“ The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Virtue always meets reward,But quicker when it wears a sword. ”

- Bret Harte

“ Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. ”

- Bret Harte
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