💬 Quotes

"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."

"Youth has this in common with power, that it believes all things are possible, and recognizes no obstacles."

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

"It is very hard to make people believe things that are not true, even when you have seen them yourself."

"Things are never quite so bad as they seem, and they are nearly always much more interesting."

"The ring gave her whatever she wished for, but it did not give her the sense to wish for the things that would make her happy."

"To people who are very young and very imaginative, the line between what is and what might be is not nearly so hard and fast as it is to grown-ups."

"When you have a magic ring, you should be very careful what you wish for, because you generally get it, and then you have to make the best of it."

"It is a very strange thing how easy it is to believe in magic when you are actually seeing it happen, and how difficult it is to believe in it when you are sitting indoors with a book."

"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."

"A man is a useless animal in a house-a creature that upsets everything, and comes in at untoward hours, and is particular about his dinner."

"We were all of us poor, and that one circumstance created a kind of bond of union between us; for keeping genteel poverty a secret from each other was our common care."