Quotes

Doctors is all swabs. ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson It was one January morning, very early—a pinching, frosty morning—the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward. ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson "With no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth." ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. ~ Invictus by William Ernest Henley It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. ~ Invictus by William Ernest Henley There is such a difference between life and theory. ~ Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope "Let's have another bottle of 'cham,'" said Captain Clutterbuck, when their dinner was nearly over. "'Cham' is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg." ~ Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope Love is involuntary. It does not often run in a yoke with prudence. ~ Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope Men who think much want to speak often. ~ Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you. ~ The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope