Category: Quotes

  • Pride and Prejudice Quotes – Page 21 | Just Great DataBase

    … la prudencia no suele acompañar a las personas que se encolerizan con facilidad… Pride and Prejudice 0 twenty Pride and Prejudice 0 she read on; but every line proved Pride and Prejudice 0 can I promise to be wiser than so many of my fellow-creatures if I am tempted, or how am I even…

  • Quotes – Page 455 | Just Great DataBase

    Seus pecados pingavam de seus lábios, um a um, pingavam em gotas vergonhosas de sua alma supurando e gotejando como uma chaga, uma corrente sórdida de vício. Os últimos pecados gotejavam, indolentes, asquerosos. James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 0 My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o’erbearing nature…

  • Quotes – Page 257 | Just Great DataBase

    Then I find I’m not ashamed after all. I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone, passive but there. I hope they get hard at the sight of us and have to rub themselves against the painted barriers, surreptitiously. They will suffer, later, at night, in their regimented beds. They have no outlets now…

  • William Faulkner Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

    Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:—touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am’s private own: not spirit, soul; the…

  • Macbeth Quotes

    By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Chapter number : 4 Line number : 44 Macbeth 2787 To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life’s but…

  • Quotes – Page 166 | Just Great DataBase

    This rough magicI here abjure, and, when I have requiredSome heavenly music, which even now I do,To work mine end upon their senses thatThis airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff,Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,And deeper than did ever plummet soundI’ll drown my book. William Shakespeare The Tempest 19 I think I…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 66 | Just Great DataBase

    But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar…

  • Quotes – Page 495 | Just Great DataBase

    Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my hand, opened the door, enter inside, and shut the door behind him. I never saw him again. Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird 0 Miss Maudie stopped rocking, and her voice hardened. You are too young…

  • The Odyssey Quotes

    Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. The Odyssey 1028 A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time The Odyssey 460 There is a time for many words, and there is also a time…

  • Quotes – Page 101 | Just Great DataBase

    Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 59 There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. William Shakespeare Hamlet 59 Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people. John Green…