"The Overcoat" Quotes
A lowly clerk becomes the laughingstock of his office until he saves up for a new overcoat, only to have it stolen on the night he finally wears it.
classics | 57 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It is said that the devil is a parasite on the world, and that he is constantly in search of the best soil to take root in.
The director of departments and all the chiefs are, in their own way, authors. They write a great deal: some of them, as I have heard, write fairly well.
I'm a human being, and I've got a heart. You can't just do anything you please with me.
There are, indeed, various kinds of tortures, none, however, is more painful than that which the feelings experience.
The cloak was in fact quite new, for it was only in its second year of service.
He was, in fact, a little man, as thin as a skeleton, and as yellow as a canary.
If a man is a fool, then everything that he does will be foolish.
They are dead, and let them be buried with all their virtues and sins.
It is strange how a man's life can be changed by a single piece of cloth.
For a long time he lay speechless, and at length began to mutter: 'Give me a drink.'
