💬 Quotes

"Kindred hearts are not so scarce as I used to think. It's a very good world, a very bright world—when one looks at it with well-wishers in one's eyes."

"True love can never be blind, but if it is wise it is large-hearted, and takes in much more than the mere personality of the beloved object."

"I don't want to diamond-cut my life into any set pattern. I want it to be untrammeled and free, to grow naturally as the wild roses grow."

"Next to being married, a funeral is the most interesting thing that can happen to a woman."

"There is a great deal of comfort in the commonplace. When you are troubled, the familiar things of everyday life are like a soft hand laid upon an aching brow."

"He that depends upon your favours swims with fins of lead and hews down oaks with rushes."

"I banish you! / Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts! / Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes, / Fan you into despair!"

"Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink."

"My mind gave me / Suspecting fault, long since, that you hunt for / Friendships which you shall parse hereafter."

"Action is eloquence, and the opinion of the more ignorant is as the muffled drum."

"I muse my mother / Does not approve me further, who was wont / To call them woollen vassals, things created / To buy and sell with groats."

"Though I be king of England, yet am I not king of my own body, to please myself, but my subjects must have their laws, and I must observe them."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"A king and a beggar—what is the difference? They are both made of the same clay."

"I am not the king, I am only the king's property; but in truth, I am the pig-woman's son, and a boy of the streets."

"Whoso is merciful shall find mercy."

"Strange, that he should be driven by blows and curses, who had lived on words of love and worship all his days."

"Seeing is not believing—it is only seeing. Though I have seen a great many things, I have come to believe a great many more of which I never saw the shadow."

"If you keep on saying you can't, you'll soon find that you can't do anything at all."

"Darkness and silence were his best friends, and light was his enemy."