"The Canterville Ghost" Quotes

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

I fear that the ghost exists, and that he may have something to do with the mystery of my wife's death.

I don't think it is at all polite to begin a conversation by saying how beautiful one is. It shows that one is thinking about oneself, and not about other people.

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.

I have come from a modern country, where we have everything that money can buy; and with all our spry young fellows painting the Old World red, and carrying off your best actors and prima-donnas, I reckon that if there were such a thing as a ghost in Europe, we'd have it at home in a very short time in one of our public museums, or on the road as a show.

The poor boy is quite inconsolable, and he is so much to be pitied, for he has been very much in love with the girl.

I am glad of it. I never liked him. He was far too handsome and good for me.

She is really wonderful. You will see her this evening at the Duchess of Paisley's, and then you can judge for yourself.

The fact is, she was simply a very plain girl, much plainer than her sister, Mrs. Otis. Her friends used to call her the English Mary, and I used to wonder at it. She was no more like Mary, Queen of Scots, than I am.