Quotes

"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion." ~ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever. ~ King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard "The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time." ~ Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. ~ Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light. ~ Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. ~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham Impropriety is the soul of wit. ~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. ~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham "Life isn't long enough for love and art." ~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham