Category: Quotes

  • Quotes – Page 362 | Just Great DataBase

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    Elizabeth received them with all the forbearance of civility Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 2 A little while after we’d moved into the depot, we heard Mom and Dad talking about buying us kids real beds, and we said they shouldn’t do it. We liked our boxes. They made going to bed seem like an…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 112 | Just Great DataBase

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    La esperanza es el bastón del amante. William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona 0 And why not death rather than living torment?And Silvia is myself; banish’d from herIs self from self, a deadly banishment.What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?Unless it be to think…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 127 | Just Great DataBase

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    She attracted him more than he liked–and Miss Bingley was uncivil to HER, and Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 tolerably Jane Austen Emma 0 Darcy was not of a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth; and Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy than felt herself to be so; Jane…

  • The Catcher in the Rye Quotes – Page 4 | Just Great DataBase

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    I don’t even like old cars. I mean, they don’t even interest me at all. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human The Catcher in the Rye 29 You ought to go to a boys’ school sometime. Try it sometime,” I said. “It’s full of phonies, and all you do…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 114 | Just Great DataBase

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    Prologue William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet 0 Roméo : Si j’ai profané avec mon indigne main cette châsse sacrée, je suis prêt à une douce pénitence : permettez à mes lèvres, comme à deux pèlerins rougissants, d’effacer ce grossier attouchement par un tendre baiser.Juliette : Bon pèlerin, vous êtes trop sévère pour votre main qui…

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    And nothing is, but what is not. William Shakespeare Macbeth 54 He knew you can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side of things. Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Chief Bromden 54 I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d…

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    Things, the word she used when whatever it stood for was too distasteful or filthy or horrible to pass her lips. A successful life for her was one that avoided things, excluded things. Such things do not happen to nice women. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 3 New York’s terrible when somebody laughs on the…

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    We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability? Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 But I also looked out the open window, letting my eyes roam over a large part of Amsterdam, over the rooftops and on to the horizon, a strip of blue so pale it was almost…

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    They love the heathen on the other side of the globe. They can pray for him, pay money to have the Bible put into his hand, and missionaries to instruct him; while they despise and totally neglect the heathen at their own doors. Such is, very briefly, my view of the religion of this land;…

  • The Outsiders Quotes

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    I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn’t think of any real good reason. There isn’t any real good reason for fighting except self-defense. Chapter number : 9 Page number : 117 The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis 154…