Quotes

They were going to look at war, the red animal--war, the blood-swollen god. ~ The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane As he gazed around him the youth felt a flash of astonishment at the blue, pure sky and the sun gleamings on the trees and fields. It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment. ~ The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Within him, as he hurled himself forward, was born a love, a despairing fondness for this flag which was near him. It was a creation of beauty and invulnerability. It was a goddess, radiant, that bended its form with an imperious gesture to him. It was a woman, red and white, hating and loving, that called him with the voice of his hopes. ~ The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage. ~ The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde "I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ~ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. ~ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination. ~ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot "One gets a bad habit of being unhappy." ~ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot