Books Quotes English

"She was the mistress of all the novels, the heroine of all the dramas, the vague "She" of all the voilmes of verse." Madame Bovary -Gustave Flaubert

"Eternal time, that was no longer his, without days, without seasons, without years, without a future, abstract time, to which he had no attachments of any kind." Broken April -Ismail Kadare

"Oh, what good'll writing do? I want to put my head out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're sick and when you're lonesome." Ethan Frome -Edith Wharton

"Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback." Barnaby Rudge -Charles Dickens

"But virtue, like sunshine, works its own sweet miracles." Jack and Jill -Louisa May Alcott

"The sweetest honey Is loathaome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately." The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet -William Shakespeare

"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home." Ultysses -James Joyce

"Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault." Little Women -Louisa May Alcott

"Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it." Pascal's Pensées -Blaise Pascal

"Ah, things are always different from what thay might be. If you wait for them to change you'll never do anything." The Portrait of a Lady -Henry James

"Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease!" Nicholas Nickelby -Charles Dickens

"If all else perished, and he remaind. I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilatedz the universe would turn a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it." Wuthering Heights -Family Brontë

"I wish i could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without is intellect is poverty." Eve's Diary -Mark Twain

"She well knew he great architecural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration." Barchester Towers -Anthony Trollope

"Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire, who haunt parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds, as some to church repair, not for the doctrine but the music there." An Essay on Criticism -Alexander Pope

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be." Mansfield Park -Jane Austen

"But as a fool is the worst of husbands to do a woman good, so a fool is the worst husband a woman can do good to." Roxana -Daniel Defoe

"I did not deceive you, mom ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself." The Mysterious Affair at Styles -Agatha Christie

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelliginle." Northanger Abbey -Jane Austen

"There is no sin so great as ignorance." Kim -Rudyard Kipling