Quotes

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. ~ Daniel Deronda by George Eliot Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ~ Daniel Deronda by George Eliot "Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness." ~ Daniel Deronda by George Eliot A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ~ Daniel Deronda by George Eliot "Adventurer" -- he that goes out to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another. ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go. ~ Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard "It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it." ~ The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope "It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away." ~ The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope "Always remember, Mr. Robarts, that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last." ~ The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere. ~ The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope