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Mark Twain: A coin, sleeve...

Mark Twain: A coin, sleeve...

A coin, sleeve button, or a collar button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in...

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Jane Austen: It is happy...

Jane Austen: It is happy...

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing...

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Jane Austen: Nobody can tell...

Jane Austen: Nobody can tell...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never...

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James Allen: All that a...

James Allen: All that a...

All that a man achieves and all that he falls to achieve is the direct result of his own...

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Charles Dickens: He [Mr Turveydrop]...

Charles Dickens: He [Mr Turveydrop]...

He [Mr Turveydrop] is celebrated almost everywhere, for his Deportment.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: There's milestones on...

Charles Dickens: There's milestones on...

There's milestones on the Dover Road!

Source: (Mr F.'s Aunt) Little Dorrit, Bk i....

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Charles Dickens: To be shelterless...

Charles Dickens: To be shelterless...

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long...

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Charles Dickens: All of us...

Charles Dickens: All of us...

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

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Charles Dickens: In the little...

Charles Dickens: In the little...

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely...

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Mark Twain: A big leather-bound...

Mark Twain: A big leather-bound...

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken...

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Mark Twain: There was things...

Mark Twain: There was things...

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Source: The...

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Jane Austen: One half of...

Jane Austen: One half of...

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Source: Emma,...

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Mark Twain: Adam was the...

Mark Twain: Adam was the...

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Ralph Ellison: Good fiction is...

Ralph Ellison: Good fiction is...

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

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George Moore: Faith goes out...

George Moore: Faith goes out...

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Source: In The...

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George Moore: Art must be...

George Moore: Art must be...

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Source:...

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Edgar Watson Howe: Doing business without...

Edgar Watson Howe: Doing business without...

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else...

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Gertrude Stein: I write for...

Gertrude Stein: I write for...

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.

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G K Chesterton: The strangest whim...

G K Chesterton: The strangest whim...

The strangest whim has seized me
. . . After all
I think I will not hang myself...

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G K Chesterton: The road from...

G K Chesterton: The road from...

The road from heaven to Hereford
Where the apple wood of Hereford
Goes all the way to...

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