Quotes

"Music oft hath such a charm to make bad good and good provoke to harm." ~ Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare "Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful." ~ Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare "If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride and hug it in mine arms." ~ Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare "I had, in a moment of inadvertence, created for myself a tie. How to define it precisely I don't know. One gets attached in a way to people one has done something for. But is that friendship? I am not sure what it was. I only know that he who forms a tie is lost. The germ of corruption has entered into his soul." ~ Victory by Joseph Conrad He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites--and escapes. ~ Victory by Joseph Conrad And he continued to stare at her, afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy "I'm bad," he said, pouting--"been bad all the week; don't sleep at night. The doctor can't tell why. He's a clever fellow, or I shouldn't have him, but I get nothing out of him but bills." ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy "Love has no age, no limit; and no death." ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view. ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy Early morning does not mince words. ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy