Quotes

"And yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions." ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen "I am afraid," replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety." ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses. ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart. ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmanent by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct. ~ The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. ~ The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe "I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving." ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare "O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place." ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare "Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending." ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. ~ Oedipus Rex by Sophocles