Quotes

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. ~ The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper "I cannot love where I cannot trust." ~ The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ~ Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde "No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing." ~ Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde She was now forty years of age, childless, and with that inordinate passion for pleasure which is the secret of remaining young. ~ Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality. ~ Lord Arthur Saviles Crime by Oscar Wilde For a moment he paused there, the wind blowing his long grey locks about his head, and twisting into grotesque and fantastic folds the nameless horror of the dead man's shroud. ~ The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde He had lived the delicate and luxurious life of a young man of birth and fortune, a life exquisite in its freedom from sordid care, its beautiful boyish insouciance; and now for the first time he became conscious of the terrible mystery of Destiny, of the awful meaning of Doom. ~ Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde Were we no better than chessmen, moved by an unseen power, vessels the potter fashions at his fancy, for honour or for shame? ~ Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte