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Mark Twain: Let us be...

Mark Twain: Let us be...

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of...

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G K Chesterton: When it comes...

G K Chesterton: When it comes...

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with...

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G K Chesterton: Compromise used to...

G K Chesterton: Compromise used to...

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that...

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G K Chesterton: THE UNIVERSE: The...

G K Chesterton: THE UNIVERSE: The...

THE UNIVERSE: The most exquisite masterpiece ever composed by nobody.

Source:...

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George Eliot: The sense of...

George Eliot: The sense of...

The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active...

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George Eliot: There are glances...

George Eliot: There are glances...

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

Source: Felix...

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Charles Dickens: Jobling, there are...

Charles Dickens: Jobling, there are...

Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.

Source: (Guppy) Bleak House, Ch....

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Charles Dickens: We didn't find...

Charles Dickens: We didn't find...

We didn't find that it [London] come up to its likeness in the red bills - it is there drawd too...

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Charles Dickens: C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb...

Charles Dickens: C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb...

C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. When the boy...

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Charles Dickens: My life is...

Charles Dickens: My life is...

My life is one demd horrid grind!

Source: (Mr Mantalini) Nicholas Nickleby, Ch. ...

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Charles Dickens: When he has...

Charles Dickens: When he has...

When he has learnt that bottinney means a knowledge of plants, he goes and knows 'em. That's our system, Nickleby;...

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Charles Dickens: I am always...

Charles Dickens: I am always...

I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the...

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Charles Dickens: He had but...

Charles Dickens: He had but...

He had but one eye and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two.

Source: (Mr...

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Charles Dickens: Dumb as a...

Charles Dickens: Dumb as a...

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

Source: (Sam Weller) Pickwick Papers, Ch....

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Charles Dickens: Regrets are the...

Charles Dickens: Regrets are the...

Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Otto von Bismarck: The main thing...

Otto von Bismarck: The main thing...

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Source: In Correct Quotes for...

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A J Balfour: Nothing matters very...

A J Balfour: Nothing matters very...

Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all.

Source: Attr.
-- A...

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A J Balfour: I rather think...

A J Balfour: I rather think...

I rather think of having a career of my own.

Source: When asked whether he was...

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Thomas Carlyle: If Jesus Christ...

Thomas Carlyle: If Jesus Christ...

If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people wouldn't even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he...

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Thomas Carlyle: Music is well...

Thomas Carlyle: Music is well...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so...

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