Soul Quotes

"I suppose that I am commuting a felony. but it is just possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to jail now, and you make him a jail-bird for life." ~ The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. ~ Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery "I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then." ~ Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery "Are there, infinitely varying with each individual, inbred forces of Good and Evil in all of us, deep down below the reach of mortal encouragement and mortal repression -- hidden Good and hidden Evil, both alike at the mercy of the liberating opportunity and the sufficient temptation?" ~ No Name by Wilkie Collins By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls. ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy She made up her mind to tell them to play loud--there was a lot of music in a cornet, if the man would only put his soul into it. ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy "Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit, Master Shallow." ~ Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare "The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another." ~ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw "But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from classand soul from soul." ~ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw "Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon." ~ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw