Quotes

One of these flaws was, that having been long taught by his father to over-reach everybody he had imperceptibly acquired a love of over-reaching that venerable monitor himself. The other, that from his early habits of considering everything as a question of property, he had gradually come to look, with impatience, on his parent as a certain amount of personal estate, which had no right whatever to be going at large, but ought to be secured in that particular description of iron safe which is commonly called a coffin, and banked in the grave. ~ Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens "The highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides." ~ Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy "Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can." ~ Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy "Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!" ~ Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling. ~ Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. ~ The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins "The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild." ~ The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler