💬 Quotes

8,736 quotes from great books

"Sin is the only real color element left in modern life."
— The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde (Classics, Literature) Annotatedby Oscar Wilde
"It was the portrait that had changed. The expression was different. There was a touch of cruelty in the mouth."
— The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde (Classics, Literature) Annotatedby Oscar Wilde
"Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood."
— The Lightning Thiefby Editorial Editorial Universe
"The real world is where the monsters are, where you have to live every day as if you might be attacked at any moment."
— The Lightning Thiefby Editorial Editorial Universe
"Being a hero isn't about being perfect. It's about doing the right thing, even when you're scared."
— The Lightning Thiefby Editorial Editorial Universe
"Names have power. That is a fact. You must be careful with them."
— The Lightning Thiefby Editorial Editorial Universe
"Deadlines just aren't real to me. They're just suggestions, like speed limits or 'keep off the grass' signs."
— The Lightning Thiefby Editorial Editorial Universe
"Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes."
— The Lightning Thiefby Editorial Editorial Universe
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
— Wuthering Heightsby Emily Brontë
"I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"
— Wuthering Heightsby Emily Brontë
"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him."
— Wuthering Heightsby Emily Brontë
"I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine."
— Wuthering Heightsby Emily Brontë
"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."
— Wuthering Heightsby Emily Brontë
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."
— Wuthering Heightsby Emily Brontë
"Et l'arbre était heureux."
— L' arbre gĂ©nĂ©reuxby Shel Silverstein
"Je suis trop vieux et trop triste pour jouer."
— L' arbre gĂ©nĂ©reuxby Shel Silverstein
"Coupe mon tronc et fais-toi un bateau. Alors tu pourras partir... et tu seras heureux."
— L' arbre gĂ©nĂ©reuxby Shel Silverstein
"Il n'avait plus rien Ă  donner."
— L' arbre gĂ©nĂ©reuxby Shel Silverstein
"Viens, petit garçon, viens et grimpe aprÚs moi et balance-toi à mes branches et mange mes pommes et joue dans mon ombre et sois heureux."
— L' arbre gĂ©nĂ©reuxby Shel Silverstein
"Une souche est une trĂšs bonne place pour s'asseoir et se reposer."
— L' arbre gĂ©nĂ©reuxby Shel Silverstein