Category: Quotes

  • Quotes – Page 483 | Just Great DataBase

    Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 –Creo que en todo individuo hay cierta tendencia a un determinado…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 44 | Just Great DataBase

    My impression is, after many years of consideration, that there never can have been anybody in the world who played worse. Charles Dickens David Copperfield 1 thought Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off. Charles Dickens David Copperfield 1 I. The Period…

  • Alice in Wonderland Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

    What do you know about this business?’ the King said to Alice. ‘Nothing,’ said Alice. ‘Nothing WHATEVER?’ persisted the King. ‘Nothing whatever,’ said Alice. Alice in Wonderland 4 Antipathies, I think–‘ (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word) ‘–but I shall have…

  • Quotes – Page 70 | Just Great DataBase

    I’m like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does. Paulo Coelho The Alchemist 114 Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby 114 I do…

  • William Faulkner Quotes – Page 6 | Just Great DataBase

    Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble sinks, the ripples moving on, spreading, the pool attached by a narrow umbilical water-cord to the next pool which the first pool feeds, has fed, did feed, let this second pool contain a…

  • Quotes – Page 375 | Just Great DataBase

    The Panza is here,” said Sancho, before anyone could reply, “and Don Quixotissimus too; and so, most distressedest Duenissima, you may say what you willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any servissimus. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote 1 They were dying slowly—it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were…

  • Quotes – Page 142 | Just Great DataBase

    You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 28 He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen. Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea 28 Man is not made…

  • Quotes – Page 187 | Just Great DataBase

    Story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth. Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried 14 The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake. Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried 14 Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 32 | Just Great DataBase

    I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, ‘SHE a beauty!–I should as soon call her mother a wit.’ But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time.” “Yes,” replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, “but THAT…

  • John Steinbeck Quotes – Page 60 | Just Great DataBase

    Cualquier escrito que haya influido en la vida y el pensamiento de generaciones innumerables, es siempre importante. En la actualidad, hay millones de seres en las sectas y las Iglesias que sienten más la orden <>, y ponen todo su peso de esta parte y en la obediencia a ella. Y hay otros millones que…