💬 Quotes
8,736 quotes from great books
"“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 Wonderlandby LEWIS CARROLL
"“It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”"
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby LEWIS CARROLL
"“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”"
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby LEWIS CARROLL
"“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. “I've had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can't take more.” “You mean you can't take *less*,” said the Hatter: “it's very easy to take *more* than nothing.”"
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby LEWIS CARROLL
"“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”"
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby LEWIS CARROLL
"The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"
— Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
"Know your own happiness. Want nothing but patience to endure and enact it."
— Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
"I wish as well as everybody else to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."
— Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
"Constant engagement is not actually required for an attachment; to be at ease in the same society is a wonderful step towards it."
— Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
"Elinor, this is too much. To take rise in the world, to be happy, to be honoured, to be everything that is fortunate, nobody denies; but I have been too miserable to be easily comforted."
— Sense and Sensibilityby Jane Austen
"Die Zeichnung ist nicht Illustration des Textes, sondern ein eigener Weg in das Unbekannte der Hölle."
— "La divina commedia"by Markus Vallazza
"Im Strich liegt das Gewicht der Schuld und die Schwere des Abstiegs."
— "La divina commedia"by Markus Vallazza
"Das Schwarz und Weiß der Radierung fängt die absolute Verlorenheit der Seele ein."
— "La divina commedia"by Markus Vallazza
"Jede Linie ist ein Seufzer, jeder Schatten ein verlorener Hoffnungsschimmer im Jenseits."
— "La divina commedia"by Markus Vallazza
"Der Körper wird bei Dante zur Landschaft des Schmerzes, die die Hand des Künstlers neu vermisst."
— "La divina commedia"by Markus Vallazza
"Durch das Labyrinth der Hölle führt kein Ausweg, nur die unerbittliche Klarheit der Form."
— "La divina commedia"by Markus Vallazza
"The harsh reality of Soviet economic life was that survival often depended on bypassing the official rules rather than following them."
— Hard Timesby William Moskoff
"For the average Soviet citizen, the centrally planned economy was not an abstract theory, but a daily obstacle course of shortages and long queues."
— Hard Timesby William Moskoff
"The second economy acted as both a parasite on the socialist state and the vital glue that kept the entire system from completely falling apart."
— Hard Timesby William Moskoff