Category: Quotes

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 16 | Just Great DataBase

    Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?”Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as…

  • Quotes – Page 143 | Just Great DataBase

    They wouldn’t be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going. Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 27 I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 5 | Just Great DataBase

    A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its…

  • Quotes – Page 235 | Just Great DataBase

    Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt. Ayn Rand Anthem 7 We shook hands and I started away. Just before I reached the hedge I remembered something and turned around. ‘They’re a rotten crowd,’ I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn…

  • The Awakening Essays

    The Awakening The sensual feeling of the repressed women to embellish her sexual Independence and desire to breathe in the air of passion and love in the deeply interwoven Patriarchal socio-cultural fabric of the society is Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening.” Kate Chopin captured the intensity of new wave of women… 1 968 words Women in…

  • Quotes – Page 31 | Just Great DataBase

    Her coming was my hope each day,Her parting was my pain;The chance that did her steps delayWas ice in every vein. Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 387 It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead. Joseph Heller Catch-22 387 Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 53 | Just Great DataBase

    Over hill, over dale,    Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale,    Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream 6 … To Sleep, Perchance to Dream… William Shakespeare Macbeth 6 yet do I fear thy nature;It is too full o’ the milk of human kindnessTo catch the nearest…

  • King Lear Act 5 Analysis

    Main events of the act 5: Regan wants to know whether Edmund loves Goneril; Edgar gives a letter to the Duke of Albany as proof of Goneril’s sins; Edmund doesn’t want to choose between Regan or Goneril and hopes that one of them will murder the other; Edmund is dreaming of becoming a kind after…

  • Quotes – Page 552 | Just Great DataBase

    Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 SEBASTIAN               A spirit I am indeed,   But am in that dimension grossly clad   Which from the womb I did participate.   Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,   I should my…

  • Quotes – Page 274 | Just Great DataBase

    The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavor to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and…