Quotes

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. ~ Emma by Jane Austen There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. ~ Emma by Jane Austen There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ~ Emma by Jane Austen The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. ~ The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. ~ The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien "I loved her till they was a dryness like ashes inside me." ~ The Night Horseman by Max Brand Silence, after all, is only a name, never a fact. There are noises in the most absolute quiet. ~ The Night Horseman by Max Brand It was a one-tone landscape. Sky, hills, barns, earth, all was a single mass of lifeless grey. ~ The Night Horseman by Max Brand "Words," said the host, at length, "is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit." ~ The Night Horseman by Max Brand "Man came into this world, not to sit down and muse, not to befog himself with vain subtleties, but to gird up his loins and to work." ~ The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville