Quotes

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. ~ Nostromo by Joseph Conrad "God for men—religions for women," he muttered sometimes. ~ Nostromo by Joseph Conrad But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. ~ Nostromo by Joseph Conrad The legend went, unconfirmed and unaccredited, but still propagated. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte Sleep went quite away. I used to rise in the night, look round for her, beseech her earnestly to return. A rattle of the window, a cry of the blast only replied---Sleep never came! ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte