Quotes

One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound-strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow. ~ Bleak House by Charles Dickens Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. ~ Bleak House by Charles Dickens It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. ~ Bleak House by Charles Dickens The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground. ~ Bleak House by Charles Dickens "Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes." ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde "Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde "Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde "Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde "Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow-creatures." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde