💬 Quotes

"Charms such as hers were capable of moving the most insensate hearts. It was impossible to see her without loving her."

"Fickle as she was, she loved me tenderly, and my presence alone could inspire her with sentiments of virtue and sincerity."

"Fate seemed to take pleasure in persecuting us, leading us from one disaster to another despite our brief moments of happiness."

"I learned at my own expense that a man given over to his passions is entirely incapable of governing his own destiny."

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

"The game is afoot."

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last."

"You know my methods, Watson. Apply them, and it is extraordinary what a great deal you may grasp."

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"The transport of those ecstatic moments, when all the powers of life are called forth and concentrated into that supreme point of bliss, are too high-wrought for description."

"Nature is always a good housewife, and provides for her ends by methods far more simple and effectual than all the contrivances of art."

"Love, true love, was at the bottom of it all; and where that is, all the little faults and whimsicalities of passion disappear like mists before the sun."

"My life, till now, had been a scene of absolute ignorance and innocence, or rather stupidity."

"Pleasure is the business of life, and it is sheer folly to sacrifice the present enjoyment to the empty name of virtue."

"Thus was I planted, in a happy soil, where I soon shot up into a luxuriant growth, and promised the most plentiful harvest."

"She was fair as the wild lily that blooms in the secret places of the mountains, untouched by the feet of cattle or the dust of the highway."

"Of all the curses that can be laid upon a man, surely the heaviest is that he should outlive his generation, and stand alone like a blasted tree upon a burnt-out plain."

"Love is stronger than death, aye, and stronger even than the fear of the king's spears, which is the greatest fear that we know in Zululand."

"The king's word is like the storm-wind; it uproots the tall tree and spares the blade of grass, and none may ask why it blows this way or that."