Category: Quotes

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 103 | Just Great DataBase

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    friendship between a person capable of it, and such an amiable man as Mr. Bingley, was incomprehensible. She grew absolutely ashamed of herself. Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think without Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 They were gone, she hoped, to be happy, however oddly constructed such happiness might seem; as for…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 16 | Just Great DataBase

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    Weel, ma´am’ said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; ‘when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; there´s now to be done wi´out tryin -cept laying down and dying. Charles Dickens Hard Times 6 Oh! if, when we oppress and…

  • The Diary of a Young Girl Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    I’m left with one consolation, small though it may be: my fountain pen was cremated, just as I would like to be someday! The Diary of a Young Girl 1 I don’t have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I’m not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I’m happy, and I intend to…

  • The Handmaid’s Tale Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck. The Handmaid’s Tale 76 There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There’s something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It’s like a spell, of sorts. It deflates…

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    The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness. Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 14 She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom. Kate Chopin The…

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    A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.It is something to think of Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 941 Life … is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing. William Shakespeare Macbeth 938 I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second…

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    O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in’t! William Shakespeare The Tempest 228 That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you’re not…

  • The Great Gatsby Quotes – Page 14 | Just Great DataBase

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    Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,’ he suggested. The Great Gatsby 0 Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty. The Great Gatsby 0 Гэтсби верил в зеленый огонек, свет неимоверного будущего счастья, которое отодвигается с каждым годом. Пусть оно ускользнуло сегодня,…

  • Death of a Salesman Quotes

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    Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. Death of a Salesman 475 The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. Death of a Salesman 274 I realized what a…

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    I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated! (Daisy) F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 6 I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 6 Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?…