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“It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.”

Made Stones Pens Offensive Paving

Book:Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.”

People Fall Walks Revolution Stones Symbols Excellent Paving

Author:Victor Hugo

“West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with”

Today Hell Stones West West Africa Quarry Paving

Author:Mary Kingsley

“From the outside, people think it's drug-related. But wherever you come from, people are driven by a sense of belonging. What I say to kids all the time is you don't own streets. We don't own the paving stones we are fighting over. Instead of fighting each other, you should be fighting the government to make this a better place to live.”

People Thinking Should Government Kids Fighting Streets Drug Stones Driven Related Belonging Better Place Places To Live Paving Fighting Each Other

Author:Ashley Walters

“The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.”

People Lasts Kings Stones Resorts Paving Cannonballs Paving The Way

Author:Victor Hugo

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”

“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”

“But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)