| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers |  |
| "Ah," said Dolly, with soothing gravity, "it's like the night and the morning, and the sleeping and the waking, and the rain and the harvest--one goes and the other comes, and we know nothing how nor where. We may strive and scrat and fend, but it's little we can do arter all--the big things come and go wi' no striving o' our'n--they do, that they do . . ." | George Eliot | Silas Marner | |
| A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger, though the roof is beginning to sink . . . | George Eliot | Silas Marner | |
| The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice. | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | |
| "The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance." | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | |
| "Hot hate is twin brother to hot love." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Sir Nigel | |
| "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." | Jane Austen | Emma | |
| It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. | W. Somerset Maugham | The Moon and Sixpence | |
| . . . she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries . . . | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | |
| A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned. | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | |
