Category: Quotes

  • Pride and Prejudice Quotes – Page 9 | Just Great DataBase

    But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable. Pride and Prejudice 2 That the Miss Lucases and the Miss Bennets should meet to talk over a ball was absolutely necessary; and the morning after the assembly brought the former to Longbourn to hear and to communicate. Pride and Prejudice 2 Having never…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 4 | Just Great DataBase

    The sun,–the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man–burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray. Charles Dickens Oliver Twist 88 I had considered how the…

  • Quotes – Page 109 | Just Great DataBase

    Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?””Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Paulo Coelho The Alchemist 51 As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status. Stieg Larsson The…

  • Quotes – Page 415 | Just Great DataBase

    Five is very good, Milo, he observed with enthusiasm, spying a ray of hope. That averages out to almost one combat mission every two months. And I’ll bet your total doesn’t even include the time you bombed us. Yes, sir. It does. Joseph Heller Catch-22 1 I think it’s more a kind of fever,’ says…

  • Quotes – Page 6 | Just Great DataBase

    It kills me sometimes, how people die. Markus Zusak The Book Thief 4823 Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. Paulo Coelho The Alchemist 4796 Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. F. Scott…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 54 | Just Great DataBase

    of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 1 After a pause, one half of the children cried…

  • Anna Karenina Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

    There it is!’ he thought with rapture. ‘When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She’s confessed it. Anna Karenina 69 The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it. Anna Karenina 64 I don’t allow myself to doubt…

  • Jane Austen Quotes – Page 30 | Just Great DataBase

    Elinor, for shame!” said Marianne, “money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 9 Encouraged by this to a further examination of his opinions, she proceeded to question him…

  • Quotes – Page 195 | Just Great DataBase

    I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their…

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quotes

    Lord, what fools these mortals be! Chapter number : 3 Line number : 117 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Oberon 2167 Things base and vile, holding no quantity,Love can transpose to form and dignity.Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste;Wings…