๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

8,730 quotes from great books

"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear."
โ€” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle
"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
โ€” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle
"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay."
โ€” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
โ€” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle
"I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule."
โ€” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle
"It's funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."
โ€” A Clockwork Orange:Hrsg. V. Claus Melchior. (Fremdsprachentexte)by Anthony Burgess
"Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"
โ€” A Clockwork Orange:Hrsg. V. Claus Melchior. (Fremdsprachentexte)by Anthony Burgess
"When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man."
โ€” A Clockwork Orange:Hrsg. V. Claus Melchior. (Fremdsprachentexte)by Anthony Burgess
"It is as easy to stop a man from being bad as it is to stop him from being good. They are both the same things, really."
โ€” A Clockwork Orange:Hrsg. V. Claus Melchior. (Fremdsprachentexte)by Anthony Burgess
"I was cured all right."
โ€” A Clockwork Orange:Hrsg. V. Claus Melchior. (Fremdsprachentexte)by Anthony Burgess
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
โ€” Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier
"I wondered what it would be like to be unfaithful, to be cruel, to be hard. I wondered if I could be like Rebecca."
โ€” Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier
"Rebecca would have looked at you like that, her eyes wide and dark, never blinking. She had a way of looking at people that made you feel you were the only person in the world."
โ€” Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier
"We can't go back to yesterday. It's a different life, isn't it?"
โ€” Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier
"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."
โ€” Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier
"You thought you could come here, to Manderley, and take her place? You are nothing, no one. You will never be mistress of Manderley."
โ€” Rebeccaby Daphne du Maurier
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
โ€” The Color Purple (Large Print))by Alice Walker
"You have to get man off your eyeball, before you can see anything aโ€™tall."
โ€” The Color Purple (Large Print))by Alice Walker
"Iโ€™m poor, Iโ€™m black, I may be ugly and canโ€™t cook, but Iโ€™m here."
โ€” The Color Purple (Large Print))by Alice Walker
"Everything wants to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler and make all kinds of love noises, folks just taking notice."
โ€” The Color Purple (Large Print))by Alice Walker