Quotes

"Where, you tend a rose, my lad,
A thistle cannot grow." ~ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. ~ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment. ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville What did she feel? Did she love him, or did she feel nothing at all for him or for any other man, being, as she had said that afternoon, free, like the wind or the sea? ~ The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf There was another flourish; and then the trio dashed spontaneously into the triumphant swing of the waltz. It was as though the room were instantly flooded with water. After a moment's hesitation first one couple, then another, leapt into mid-stream, and went round and round in the eddies. ~ The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf "A book," I observed, "might be written on the Injustice of the Just." ~ Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. ~ Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope "Economy," I remarked, putting my hands in my pockets, "is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something which you probably won't want." ~ Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope "I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. "Who are you, and why do you seek me?" ~ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum "You people with hearts," he said, "have something to guide you, and need never do wrong." ~ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum