100 quotes found
“Modesty, not temper.”
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
“Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.”
“We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .”
“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”
“You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to y...”
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me ...”
“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual lifethe life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within itcan understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity int...”
“I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing.”
“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”
“There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exa...”
“I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad...”
“Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious Hooker, if she had been born in t...”
“But a good wifea good unworldly womanmay really help a man, and keep him more independent.”
“If a princess in the days of enchantment had seen a four-footed creature from among those which live in herds come to her once and again with a human gaze which rested upon her with choice and bese...”
“Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely thr...”
“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacing are swung--are scarcely perceptible; momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays ...”
“what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
“On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman h...”
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
“Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
“Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”
“She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.”
