Memory Quotes

Question 1

Full of a multitude of sweet and natural and long forgotten sounds

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Question 2

The phantoms of those haunted late years began to take flight

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Question 3

The words seemed to ring back to me enriched from the vaults of my dungeon

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Question 4

It is easy retrospectively to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence

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Question 5

That luncheon party — was the beginning of a new epoch in my life

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Question 6

Could I have known then that it, would one day be remembered with tears by a middle-aged captain of infantry?

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Question 7

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

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Question 8

The familiar bells now spoke of a year’s memories.

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Question 9

I heard an unmistakable voice, an echo from what now seemed a distant past.

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Question 10

My theme is memory, that winged host

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Question 11

We possess nothing certainly except the past

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Question 12

Anthony Blanche had not changed from when I last saw him; not, indeed, from when I first saw him.

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Question 13

‘Do you remember’, said Julia, in the tranquil, lime-scented evening

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Question 14

It’s frightening,’ Julia once said, ‘to think how completely you have forgotten Sebastian.’

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Question 15

I had not forgotten Sebastian. He was with me daily in Julia; or rather it was Julia I had known in him, in those distant Arcadian days.

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Question 16

Every stone of the house had a memory of him

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Question 17

Had it come to him at that moment, an awakened memory of childhood, a dream in the nursery

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Question 18

I had first seen it with Sebastian, the secluded valley, the lakes falling away one below the other, the old house in the foreground, the rest of the world abandoned and forgotten

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Question 19

Aunt Julia knew the tombs, cross-legged knight and doubleted earl, marquis like a Roman senator… we were knights then

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Question 20

The broken sentences which were the last words spoken between Julia and me, the last memories

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Question 21

‘Yes, very well. It belongs to friends of mine,’ and as I said the words they sounded as odd in my I ears as Sebastian’s had done, when, instead of saying, ‘It is my home,’ he said, ‘It is where my family live.’

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