Quotes

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter–often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter–in the eye. ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give. ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Sometimes I wonder if our memories are as good as we think they are and if the whole past wasn't once entirely different from anything we remember, and we've forgotten that we forgot. ~ The Big Time by Fritz Leiber An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope He has had the power of making the world believe in him simply because he has been rich and a duke. ~ Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope