Quotes

But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! ~ As You Like It by William Shakespeare He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends. ~ As You Like It by William Shakespeare A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
A motley fool. ~ As You Like It by William Shakespeare Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits. ~ As You Like It by William Shakespeare "I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off." ~ O Pioneers! by Willa Cather "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years." ~ O Pioneers! by Willa Cather But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. ~ Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars. ~ Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert She had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them. ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen "Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything." ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen