Quotes - Page 17 | Just Great DataBase

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Pass the damn ham, please.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked."Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

It takes two to make an accident.

The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They're Caeser's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, "Remember, Caeser, thou art mortal." Most of us can't rush around, talking to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.