Words of Wisdom Quotes

"Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day." ~ Macbeth by William Shakespeare "Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done." ~ Macbeth by William Shakespeare "Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies." ~ Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte "Honest people don't hide their deeds." ~ Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves." ~ Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte "The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer." ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens It is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens