💬 Quotes

"Being dead is not a condition that precludes the possibility of suffering."

"I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principal duties of both."

"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad."

"Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained. What have you been judging from? Remember the country and the age in which we live."

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

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized."

"The city was a great magnet, which drew to itself the best and the worst of humanity."

"He was a man who seemed to have been born without a conscience, a void where a soul should have been."

"The fair was a fragile dream of order and beauty set in the midst of the chaos and filth of industrial Chicago."

"Fate had a way of weaving the lives of the innocent and the monstrous into the same tapestry."

"They were building a stage for the world, not knowing that the shadows behind the curtain were deepening."

"The Scarlet Pimpernel is the name of a tiny English wayside flower; but it is also the name of a shadowy figure, who, like the Pimpernel, is everywhere, and yet nowhere—seen by none, known by none, yet felt by all."

"We seek him here, we seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? Is he in hell? That demmed, elusive Pimpernel!"

"Behind that mask of levity, that affected drawl and languid air, lies a man of iron will and boundless courage."

"Fate, which has often been cruel to me, has been kind in this—that it has given me a chance to show you that I am worthy of your love."

"In England, we do not guillotine men for the mere pleasure of seeing blood flow."

"A woman's heart is a strange and inscrutable thing; it may be won by a glance, and lost by a word."

"Hill House has stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."

"I am disappearing, inch by inch, into this house. I am going, I am going, and I don't know where to turn."