💬 Quotes

"All is true; this is no fiction. Reader, you can measure the truth of this sorrowful drama by your own heart."

"Secrets? Ah! Why, we know everything. How do we live? By selling one another's secrets."

"Paris is a veritable ocean. You may cast your plummet into it, but you will never know its depth."

"Fathers should always be rich. They should keep their children under their thumb, like crafty villains. I am a fool. I loved my daughters so well that I gave them my all."

"Of course it is very difficult for anybody who is only grown-up to understand how things happen to children."

"Things that are impossible just have to be done when you're in a fix."

"It is a very strange thing how fast time goes when you have magic to help you, and how very slowly it goes when you only have lessons."

"Adventures are all very well in their way, but you can have too much of a good thing."

"A carpet is a carpet, of course, to people who only look at the outside of things; but a magic carpet is quite another pair of shoes."

"The Phoenix had a way of saying things that made you feel as if you were about ten times as clever as you really were."

"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."

"There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have only one objection, namely, that it is not true."

"By the light of the sun, we are able to see all manner of useful things; but by the light of the imagination, we are empowered to create the world anew."

"I never heard of any male person induced by vanity to commit folly, but he was sure to be pointed at by his sex; whereas the fair ones are pleased to pardon any folly which is committed to recommend them."

"Prudence, alas! is the duty of our own species, and if we were to look for it only in such characters as have spent their youth in the lap of science, we should often be mistaken."

"A good heart has nothing to fear, but truly a bad one has enough to make it tremble."

"It is a very good thing to sometimes let your thoughts run wild and free, and just sit back and watch where they take you."

"We are like the children who buy a new toy, play with it for five minutes, and then throw it up against the wall to see what it looks like broken."

"Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need: a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you."

"We are not contented with the lot we have, because we are so anxious about what we are going to have."