Quotes

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ~ The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne "If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them." ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen "Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly." ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson "I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me." ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest -- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson "Let them be brought to the house of 'She-who-must-be-obeyed'. Bring forth the men, and let that which they have with them be brought forth also." ~ She by H. Rider Haggard At length the heralds and forerunners of the royal sun had done their work, and, searching out the shadows, had caused them to flee away. Then up he came in glory from his ocean-bed, and flooded the earth with warmth and light. ~ She by H. Rider Haggard From the east to the west sped the angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light with both their hands. ~ She by H. Rider Haggard The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us. It was on the break--the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light. On it rushed beneath the inky sky, driven by the awful squall behind it. ~ She by H. Rider Haggard "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." ~ Emma by Jane Austen