Quotes

"Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office, and his tongue sounds ever after as a sullen bell, rememb'red tolling a departing friend." ~ Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare "Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit, Master Shallow." ~ Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." ~ Henry IV, Part Two by William Shakespeare Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. ~ White Fang by Jack London He was a ferocious man. He had been ill-made in the making. He had not been born right, and he had not been helped any by the moulding he had received at the hands of society. The hands of society are harsh, and this man was a striking sample of its handiwork. ~ White Fang by Jack London There was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept. ~ White Fang by Jack London One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself. ~ White Fang by Jack London "Rather courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play." ~ The Old Bachelor by William Congreve "Married in haste, we may repent at leisure." ~ The Old Bachelor by William Congreve "Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me." ~ Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare