💬 Quotes
4,434 quotes from great books
"Whan that aprill with his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath perced to the roote..."
— The Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer
"The firste vertu, sone, if thou wilt lere, / Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge."
— The Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer
"Lust and fals felicitee / Tellen bitwisse ernest and game."
— The Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer
"It is strange how closely allied are the extremes of the emotions. The transition from intense joy to profound sorrow is often so subtle as to be imperceptible."
— The Jewel of Seven Starsby Bram Stoker
"The past is not dead; it is not even past. In these old days, things were done which are not yet finished."
— The Jewel of Seven Starsby Bram Stoker
"There are mysteries in life which are beyond our ken, and which belong to a different order of things from that in which our daily lives are cast."
— The Jewel of Seven Starsby Bram Stoker
"Power, when it is absolute, knows no bounds of time or space; it reaches beyond the grave and mocks the decay of the mortal frame."
— The Jewel of Seven Starsby Bram Stoker
"A great danger shared often breeds a great union of souls, welding together disparate minds in the white heat of necessity."
— The Jewel of Seven Starsby Bram Stoker
"Science and the occult are often but different names for the same great truth, viewed from opposite sides of the impenetrable veil."
— The Jewel of Seven Starsby Bram Stoker
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat."
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glassby LEWIS CARROLL
"‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’"
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glassby LEWIS CARROLL
"‘It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’"
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glassby LEWIS CARROLL
"‘Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)."
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glassby LEWIS CARROLL
"‘Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!’"
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glassby LEWIS CARROLL
"‘Alice! Lavish not your time upon trifles,’ the Queen said, with a sudden change of tone. ‘Remember who you are, and what you must become.’"
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glassby LEWIS CARROLL
"Now this is the law of the jungle, as old and as true as the sky; and the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die."
— The Jungle Bookby Rudyard Kipling
"The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack."
— The Jungle Bookby Rudyard Kipling