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The sun did not rise, it overflowed.
~ Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Any woman who is sure of her own wits is a match at any time for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill!
~ Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Scattered wits take a long time picking up.
~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
"It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop."
~ Adam Bede by George Eliot
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
~ Middlemarch by George Eliot
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"
~ Middlemarch by George Eliot
"It hath been often said that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible."
~ Amelia by Henry Fielding
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.
~ This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
~ This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
~ A Room With A View by E. M. Forster
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if
there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
~ Howards End by E. M. Forster
"The proper study of mankind is books."
~ Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.
~ Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
~ Dune by Frank Herbert
If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.
~ Dune by Frank Herbert
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that
brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass
over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner
eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
~ Dune by Frank Herbert
"I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination."
~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
"Life isn't long enough for love and art."
~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heaven.
~ Paradise Lost by John Milton
For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.
~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,
Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
~ The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
To sleep! perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.
~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
A dream itself is but a shadow.
~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, As self-neglecting."
~ Henry V by William Shakespeare
"We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."
~ The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose.
~ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
