Quotes

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. " ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte "God did not give me my life to throw away." ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte "I don't think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience." ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte If a man be gloomy, let him keep to himself. No one has a right to go croaking about society, or, what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. ~ The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. ~ The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement, is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician. ~ The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope "I am as ready to obey as a child;—but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason." ~ The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious. ~ The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope A man desires to win a virgin heart, and is happy to know,—or at least to believe,—that he has won it. With a woman every former rival is an added victim to the wheels of the triumphant chariot in which she is sitting. ~ Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope "Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends?" ~ Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope