💬 Quotes

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

"I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."

"Most people are nice, Scout, when you finally see them."

"I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks."

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

"We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are."

"Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it."

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

"Tous les animaux sont égaux, mais certains animaux sont plus égaux que d'autres."

"Quatre pattes, deux jambes, mauvais !"