Quotes

"No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know." ~ Oedipus Rex by Sophocles He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen "As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life." ~ Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare "How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after." ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare "You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest." ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare "But now I am return'd, and that war-thoughts have left their places vacant, in their rooms come thronging soft and delicate desires." ~ Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare "Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth." ~ Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic, or to the scientific conclusions of a lofty genius? Where did truth stop? Where did error begin? ~ Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne "Axel," replied the Professor with perfect coolness, "our situation is almost desperate; but there are some chances of deliverance, and it is these that I am considering. If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved. Let us then be prepared to seize upon the smallest advantage." ~ Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne