Category: Quotes

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 36 | Just Great DataBase

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    I thank you; but I assure you you are quite mistaken. Mr. Elton and I are very good friends, and nothing more;’ and she walked on, amusing herself in the consideration of the blunders which often arise from a partial knowledge of circumstances, of the mistakes which people of high pretensions to judgment are for…

  • Don Quixote Quotes

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    Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. Don Quixote 3907 The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water. Don Quixote 1838 When life itself seems lunatic, who knows…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 38 | Just Great DataBase

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    …think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you! Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 Crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest amd fairest are too often its chosen victims. Charles Dickens Oliver…

  • Childhood’s End Quotes

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    Science is the only religion of mankind. Childhood’s End 102 No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all…

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    V: After having sucked all the good out of him you duck him away like a… like a banana skin. Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot 2 There is one thing I’d like to know, though,’ says Albert, ‘and that’s whether there would still have been a war if the Kaiser had said no.’ ‘I’m sure…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

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    There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,’ returned the nephew. ‘Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything…

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    His descent was like nightfall. Homer The Iliad 69 No, no, no, no! Come, let’s away to prison:We two alone will sing like birds i’ the cage:When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down,And ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live,And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laughAt gilded butterflies, and hear…

  • I care for myself. The more solitary, Jane Eyre

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    I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad—as I am now. Laws and principles are…

  • The Things They Carried Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

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    How do you generalize? War is hell, but that’s not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war…

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    He’s back! He’s back!””Who’s back?” shouted someone else. “Who is it?””What does it mean? What should we do?””Are we on fire?””Get up and run, damn it! Everybody get up and run! Joseph Heller Catch-22 3 I wandered through various public rooms, glory below, gloom above: for the look of lust always is gloomy; lust is…