Richard Harding Davis
Journalist
1864-04-18
Books by Richard Harding Davis
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Quotes by Richard Harding Davis
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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.
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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.
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I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.
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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
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Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.
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Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.
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I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.
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As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.
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All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.
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