Category: Quotes

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 44 | Just Great DataBase

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    All dark and comfortless. William Shakespeare King Lear 9 Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;Filths savour but themselves… William Shakespeare King Lear 9 Beshrew your eyes,They have o’erlook’d me and divided me;One half of me is yours, the other half yours,Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,And so all yours.…

  • Othello Summary

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    Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, written circa 1603, can be viewed as one of the earliest literary piece dealing with the problem, which still exists now: racism. This is a story of marriage between Othello, a Moorish general in Venetian army, and a lovely white noble woman, Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, made unhappy by scheming…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 65 | Just Great DataBase

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    Если теперь, так, значит, не потом; если не потом, так, значит, теперь; если не теперь, то все равно когда-нибудь; готовность — это все William Shakespeare Hamlet 3 Come, my spade; there is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and gravemakers; they hold up Adam’s profession. William Shakespeare Hamlet 3 There is a tide in the…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 65 | Just Great DataBase

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    There were tears in the eye of the gentle girl, as these words were spoken; and when one fell upon the flower over which she bent, and glistened brightly in its cup, making it more beautiful, it seemed as though the outpouring of her fresh young heart, claimed kindred with the loveliest things in nature.…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 17 | Just Great DataBase

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    The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 5 The happiness he gives is quite as great, as if it cost a fortune. Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 5 El recuerdo de lo que…

  • Quotes – Page 224 | Just Great DataBase

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    We should turn resolutely towards Nature. Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot 8 The tears coursed down her cheeks – not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets. A humorous suggestion was made that…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 42 | Just Great DataBase

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    The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved either, as to its final event, can hardly extend, I fear, to the bosom of my readers, who will see in the tell-tale compression of the pages before them, that we are all…

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    What confronts us, now the excitement’s over, is our own failure. Mother, I think. Wherever you may be. Can you hear me? You wanted a women’s culture. Well, now there is one. It isn’t what you meant, but it exists. Be thankful for small mercies. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 You know, the kind…

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    Look at the mess we’ve got ourselves into,’ Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, ‘just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas. Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude 2 I dearly love a laugh. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 2 We’re the safest folks in the world,” said Miss Maudie.…

  • Quotes – Page 211 | Just Great DataBase

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    It isn’t the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 10 But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly;…