A big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup. Raymond Chandler On Los Angeles. Buy The Little Sister at Amazon Buy The Little Sister at Amazon Read The Little Sister at Project Gutenberg Instagram sharing coming soon. Quote text and source copied to clipboard. Link to this quote copied to clipboard. More information about this quote Topic Los Angeles Cities Speaker Philip Marlowe Author Raymond Chandler Source The Little Sister Medium Novel Genre Detective fiction Statement Type Metaphor, analogy and simile Language English Time 1949 1940s 20th century Occupation Novelist Writer From United States Authentication Score 3 More information on Authentication Score coming soon. Citation Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1949, ch. 26. Citation text copied to clipboard.
Another quote from the 1940s This war did not bear the characteristics of the previous conflicts among the European nations to which we were accustomed. To an ever increasing degree it began to be generally realized that the reasons for this conflict were no longer to be sought in the usual interests even if plausible of the various nations, but that in reality it was one of those elementary struggles which shaking the foundations of the world but once in a thousand years, introduce a new millennium. Adolf Hitler Speech to the Reichstag, April 26, 1942 There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database. Show More Info Instagram sharing coming soon. Quote text and source copied to clipboard. Link to this quote copied to clipboard. More information about this quote Topic World War II Speaker Adolf Hitler Source Speech to the Reichstag, April 26, 1942 Medium Speech Genre Political speech Language German Time 1942 1940s 20th century Authentication Score 1 More information on Authentication Score coming soon. Citation Hitler, Adolf. Speech to the Reichstag. 26 Apr. 1942, Kroll Opera House, Berlin, Germany. Citation text copied to clipboard. Show Less Info
Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile But winter is coming. Jon Snow There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database. Game of Thrones Show More Info Watch Season 5 of Game of Thrones at Amazon Watch Season 5 of Game of Thrones at Amazon Instagram sharing coming soon. Quote text and source copied to clipboard. Link to this quote copied to clipboard. More information about this quote Topic Winter Seasons Speaker Jon Snow Actor Kit Harington Source Game of Thrones Medium TV program Genre Fantasy (TV) Drama (TV) Fantasy Drama Statement Type Metaphor, analogy and simile Language English Time 2015 2010s 21st century Authentication Score 3 More information on Authentication Score coming soon. Citation "Kill the Boy." Game of Thrones, written by George R.R. Martin and David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, directed by Jeremy Podeswa, season 5, episode 5, Television 360, 2015. Citation text copied to clipboard. Show Less Info