Quotes

Wine is valued by its price, not its flavour. ~ The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope "There are worse evils than war." ~ The Virginian by Owen Wister Many an act that man does is right or wrong according to the time and place which form, so to speak, its context; strip it of its surrounding circumstances, and you tear away its meaning. Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday! ~ The Virginian by Owen Wister I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls. ~ The Virginian by Owen Wister "When you call me that, SMILE." ~ The Virginian by Owen Wister "When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." ~ The Virginian by Owen Wister The best men are not consistent in good--why should the worst men be consistent in evil? ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them. ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins "I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong." ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins