💬 Quotes

"Seeing is not believing. It is only seeing."

"If you believe in things because you can see them, you are of little worth as a man or a woman."

"Old people are nearly always right, even when they're wrong."

"It is a great thing when you are willing to let go your hold of a thing that you love, just because it is better for it that you should."

"Creatures that are in a state of transition are often ugly, and sometimes very hurtful."

"A man's true worth is the amount of truth he will suffer for, and the amount of service he will do without reward."

"Man creates a God in his own image, and then trembles before the monster of his own imagination."

"We wander through life with a bandage over our eyes, firmly convinced that we see everything clearly."

"It is not death that terrifies us, but the desolate void that precedes it—the realization of our utter insignificance."

"Love is often nothing more than a refined form of selfishness, a desperate attempt to conquer our own loneliness."

"Conscience is merely the echo of societal prejudice whispering in the quiet chambers of the soul."

"To truly know oneself is the most agonizing task set before a human being; most prefer the comfort of perpetual ignorance."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"A good wit will make use of anything: I will turn diseases to commodity."

"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"

"Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought: I strove to speak, but my power was not mine."

"We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow."

"I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; how ill white hairs become a fool and jester!"

"In Cranford pubblico opinion is everything; a man may be a hero, but if his socks are darned with two different colors, he is ruined."

"We all of us have our peculiarities; and mine is to desire a little gentility, and to be extremely particular as to who visits us."