Category: Quotes

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 6 | Just Great DataBase

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    Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 266 It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the…

  • John Steinbeck Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

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    His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men 217 And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I…

  • The Divine Comedy Quotes

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    All hope abandon, ye who enter here. The Divine Comedy 605 The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain. The Divine Comedy 481 L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle. The Divine Comedy 410 The devil is not as black as he is painted. The Divine Comedy 336 Through…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 59 | Just Great DataBase

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    My father’s spirit in arms! all is not well;I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes. William Shakespeare Hamlet 4 And these few precepts in thy memoryLook thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,Nor any unproportioned…

  • The Handmaid’s Tale Quotes

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    When I get out of here, if I’m ever able to set this down, in any form, even in the form of one voice to another, it will be a reconstruction then too, at yet another remove. It’s impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be…

  • Though she be but little she is fierce

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    Though she be but little she is fierce. Quote Analysis Act 3 Scene 2 line 335 This characterisation of Hermia goes from her former-friend-now-rival Helena in Act 3 Scene 2. Helena knows pretty well that Hermia isn’t satisfied with her height and deliberately presses the sore point, even when she tries to avoid the fight…

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    If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off. It Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 1 Non faccio che dire «piacere d’averla conosciuta» a gente che non…

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    I should like balls infinitely better,” she replied, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to out opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 77 | Just Great DataBase

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    The ox hath therefore stretch’d his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat; and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain’d a beard: The fold stands empty in the drownèd field, And crows are fatted with the murrion flock; The nine men’s morris is fill’d up with mud; And the quaint mazes…

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    How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Slaughterhouse-Five 2533 I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted,…