196 quotes found
“Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears Can witness how I cling to thee?”
“How odd it is that we so often weep for each others distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!”
“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”
“One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.”
“She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.”
“When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping ones anger.”
“Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”
“She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.”
“But this gives no proper idea of my feelings at all; and no one that has not lived such a retired stationary life as mine, can possibly imagine what they were: hardly even if he has known what it i...”
“Ill promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.”
“He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.”
“It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.”
“Never! while heaven spares my reason, replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.”
“I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterate...”
“. . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevated that we ourselves shall then regard as trifling those objects and pursuits we now so fondly ch...”
“Its well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.”
“Though solitude, endured too long,Bids youthful joys too soon decay,Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue,And overclouds my noon of day;When kindly thoughts that would have way,Flow back discouraged ...”
“No one can be happy in eternal solitude.”
“If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.”
“When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.”
