Miscellaneous Quotes

I saw, I imitated, I survived! ~ Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Out of natural courtesy he received, but did not appropriate. It was like a gift placed in the palm of an outreached hand upon which the fingers do not close. ~ Billy Budd by Herman Melville "Is there no difference," asked Helena, with a little faltering in her manner; "between submission to a generous spirit, and submission to a base or trivial one?" ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens "The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain. " ~ The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens "Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me." ~ Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare "It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it." ~ The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. ~ The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused. ~ The Call of the Wild by Jack London "It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? " ~ Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery "Your words and performances are no kin together." ~ Othello by William Shakespeare