Category: Quotes

  • Quotes – Page 276 | Just Great DataBase

    Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.Age: five thousand three hundred days.Profession: none, or “starlet”.Where are you hiding, Dolores Haze?Why are you hiding, darling?(I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze,I cannot get out, said the starling). Vladimir Nabokov Lolita 4 His poem is like a play in a room through the windows…

  • William Shakespeare Quotes – Page 103 | Just Great DataBase

    Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare Twelfth Night 1 What you doStill betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.I’ld have you do it ever: when you sing,I’ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,To sing…

  • Sex Quotes – Page 5 | Just Great DataBase

    —I won’t go about to argue the point with you,—’tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, “That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position. Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2 عندما…

  • To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes – Page 17 | Just Great DataBase

    When they finally saw him, why he hadn’t doneany of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . . His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them. To Kill a Mockingbird 0 Atticus said: Sister, when…

  • Quotes – Page 158 | Just Great DataBase

    If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not…

  • Quotes – Page 249 | Just Great DataBase

    He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me. Albert Camus The Stranger 6…

  • Slaughterhouse-Five Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

    It is so short and jumbled and jangled because there is nothing intelligent to say after a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead…everything is supposed to be very quiet…and it always is, except for the birds. Slaughterhouse-Five 27 All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist…It’s just an illusion here…

  • Quotes – Page 108 | Just Great DataBase

    So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. John Green Looking for Alaska 52 The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy,…

  • Brave New World Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

    I think that’s rather sweet. One feels one would like to pet him. You know. Like a cat. Brave New World Lenina Crowne My word, I’m glad I’m not a Gamma. Brave New World Lenina Crowne I wish we could have brought the plane. I hate walking. And you feel so small when you’re on…

  • Fahrenheit 451 Quotes

    Nobody listens any more. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense. And I want you to teach me to…