Category: Quotes

She had an excellent heart — her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 1 Every morning, therefore, uncle…

The will of man is by his reason sway’d; William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3 Brief as the lightning in the collied night;That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,And ere a man hath power to say “Behold!”The jaws of darkness do devour it up.So quick bright things come to confusion. William Shakespeare…

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 2284 All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 616 But it’s the truth…

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird Scout Finch 717 The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream. William Golding Lord of the Flies 716 I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.…

To be sure, an ordinary passer-by would think that my rose looked just like you– the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the…

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 3 No eloquence could have been so withering to one’s belief in mankind as his final burst of sincerity. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness 3 His soul had arisen from the grave…