22 quotes found
“To HelenI saw thee once-once only-years ago;I must not say how many-but not many.It was a july midnight; and from outA full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring,Sought a precipitate pathw...”
“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”
“I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.”
“Realize your youth while you have it. Dont squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, an...”
“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.”
“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.”
“It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.”
“The sun will always rise, but we may never know”
“The moon shone upon his almost transparent hands, and Stephen saw that the nails were fearfully long and that the light shone through them.”
“Ignoring somebodys mistakes in life from a powerful position makes you a saint, but the same act (whose intentiondoes not matter), if carried out from a weak position, will make you a coward or hel...”
“Upon the publication of Goethes epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its ent...”
“In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.”
“the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.”
“Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, a...”
“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.”
“Ignoring somebody’s mistakes in life from a powerful position makes you a saint, but the same act (whose intentiondoes not matter), if carried out from a weak position, will make you a coward or he...”
“Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its en...”
