💬 Quotes

8,724 quotes from great books

"We die as we have lived—alone, misunderstood, and forgotten by the world we served."
— Le vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tardby Alexandre Dumas
"Politics swallows men, digests them, and spits them out when they are no longer of any use."
— Le vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tardby Alexandre Dumas
"This is the saddest story I have ever heard."
— The Good Soldierby Ford Madox Ford
"You are all of you the same. For all I know you are all lunatics, or else I am a lunatic."
— The Good Soldierby Ford Madox Ford
"Humanity, take it by and large, doesn't like change."
— The Good Soldierby Ford Madox Ford
"I know nothing — nothing in the world — of the and-a-little-more that makes the difference between happiness and eventual unhappiness."
— The Good Soldierby Ford Madox Ford
"Society must go on, so long as it doesn't actually smash itself up."
— The Good Soldierby Ford Madox Ford
"I have, I suppose, a sort of inertness. I suppose that I am not really a man of the world."
— The Good Soldierby Ford Madox Ford
"The Blue Castle was a real place, after all. Or perhaps it was just a state of mind that created a real place."
— The Blue Castleby Lucy Maud Montgomery
"The past is not a foreign country; it is our own neighborhood, darkened by time and crowded with ghosts who refuse to leave."
— The Great Shadowby Susan Wise Bauer
"Falling in love with someone from another century is complicated enough, but falling in love with someone who thinks you’re just a pawn is worse."
— Ruby red Trilogy (2017) (1) (Timeless)by Kerstin Gier
"Tu nombre es un arma. Tu nombre es una sentencia."
— La espada de la asesinaby Sarah J. Maas
"No soy una damisela en apuros ni una mujer que necesite ser salvada; soy el fin de aquellos que se interponen en mi camino."
— La espada de la asesinaby Sarah J. Maas
"La libertad no es algo que se te da, es algo que se toma, sin importar el precio que debas pagar."
— La espada de la asesinaby Sarah J. Maas
"Incluso en la oscuridad más profunda, siempre hay una chispa de esperanza si estás dispuesto a buscarla."
— La espada de la asesinaby Sarah J. Maas
"Mis enemigos no son los que me odian, sino los que me subestiman."
— La espada de la asesinaby Sarah J. Maas
"Un corazón puede romperse mil veces, pero todavía debe ser capaz de latir para la próxima batalla."
— La espada de la asesinaby Sarah J. Maas
"It was impossible to walk through the streets of Ankh-Morpork without wanting to reach out and touch the nearest wall, just to make sure it was solid."
— The Colour of Magicby Terry Pratchett
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— The Colour of Magicby Terry Pratchett
"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
— The Colour of Magicby Terry Pratchett