Quotes

"I thought her
As chaste as unsunned snow." ~ Cymbeline by William Shakespeare "Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust." ~ Cymbeline by William Shakespeare "Slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath,
Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
All corners of the world." ~ Cymbeline by William Shakespeare "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." ~ The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton "I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead to a lobster. It is commonly the other way." ~ The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton "There is your precious order, that lean, iron lamp, ugly and barren; and there is anarchy, rich, living, reproducing itself--there is anarchy, splendid in green and gold." ~ The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton "Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity." ~ The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged is a man's delight; to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's. ~ The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope "When one reflects what a deal of harm a bishop may do, one wishes that there was some surer way of getting bishops." ~ The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies--who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two--that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself. ~ The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope