100 quotes found
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.”
“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?”
“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
“Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.”
“There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.”
“That is the way with us when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition: if our talents are chiefly of the burrowing kind, our honey-sipping cousin (whom we have grave reasons for objecting to)...”
“In poor Rosamonds mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.”
“It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at Fren...”
“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.”
“Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.”
“Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.”
“...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scent...”
“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
“I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical p...”
“Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.”
“what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an appointment) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?”
“I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.”
“Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from ...”
“He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so mu...”
“We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .”
