Quotes

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours. ~ Ulysses by James Joyce The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. ~ Ulysses by James Joyce The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. ~ Ulysses by James Joyce Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown. ~ The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best. ~ The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie "Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left." ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity. ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen Time will explain. ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen My good opinion once lost, is lost forever. ~ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen