💬 Quotes

"Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love."

"For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion."

"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much."

"Done to death by slanderous tongues / Was the Hero that here lies."

"Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?"

"It is not his fault that he is a little fat, and that his nose is red, and that his voice is like a trombone."

"I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year."

"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion."

"A man may be ever so much a fool, but he is a man, and women are, more or less, his servants."

"All is vanity! It is all vanity, and vexation of spirit."

"The world is not built on truth; it is built on the stories we are comfortable believing."

"You cannot build a utopia on a foundation of rot and expect the walls to hold forever."

"Power is not a light to be wielded, but a gravity that pulls everything toward its own ruin."

"To be a scholar is to be a ghost in your own life, haunting the dusty pages of history while the present burns around you."

"If the price of progress is the silence of the oppressed, then we are not advancing; we are merely entrenching our sins."

"The most dangerous thing in the world is a mind that has been taught to solve problems but never to question them."

"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."

"If you ain't scared, you ain't human."

"It is a terrible thing to learn the truth about what one loves."

"We are all of us haunted by the people we have lost and the people we have yet to find."