Famous quotes containing the words accounts, detail and/or ben:
“Friendship is friendship, but accounts must be kept.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Jamess great gift, of course, was his ability to tell a plot in shimmering detail with such delicacy of treatment and such fine aloofnessthat is, reluctance to engage in any direct grappling with what, in the play or story, had actually taken placeMthat his listeners often did not, in the end, know what had, to put it in another way, gone on.”
—James Thurber (18941961)
“And showed the names whom love of God had blessed,
And, lo! Ben Adhems name led all the rest!”
—Leigh Hunt (17841859)
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