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Winston Churchill: We must build...

Winston Churchill: We must build...

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

Source: Speech, Zurich, 19 Sept...

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Charles Dickens: He's a going...

Charles Dickens: He's a going...

He's a going out with the tide.

Source: (Mr Peggotty) David Copperfield, Ch. ...

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Charles Dickens: The man who...

Charles Dickens: The man who...

The man who knows only one subject is almost as tiresome as the man who knows no subject.

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Charles Dickens: They are so...

Charles Dickens: They are so...

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet...

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Charles Dickens: Cheerfulness and contentment...

Charles Dickens: Cheerfulness and contentment...

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful...

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George Eliot: Hostesses who entertain...

George Eliot: Hostesses who entertain...

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than...

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George Eliot: If we had...

George Eliot: If we had...

If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we...

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George Eliot: I'm proof against...

George Eliot: I'm proof against...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving...

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George Eliot: Sympathetic people often...

George Eliot: Sympathetic people often...

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Blow the dust...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Blow the dust...

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you...

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Richard Bach: Every person, all...

Richard Bach: Every person, all...

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them...

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Marguerite Duras: You have to...

Marguerite Duras: You have to...

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're...

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Joseph Heller: Frankly, I'd like...

Joseph Heller: Frankly, I'd like...

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private...

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George Eliot: Vanity is as...

George Eliot: Vanity is as...

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot...

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George Eliot: When one wanted...

George Eliot: When one wanted...

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest,...

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George Eliot: One way of...

George Eliot: One way of...

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their...

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George Eliot: An egotist is...

George Eliot: An egotist is...

An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow.

Source:...

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George Eliot: But that intimacy...

George Eliot: But that intimacy...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...

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Charles Dickens: If there were...

Charles Dickens: If there were...

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Source: Mr. Brass, in...

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Charles Dickens: There's a Providence...

Charles Dickens: There's a Providence...

'There's a Providence in it all,' said Sam. `O' course there is,' replied his father with a nod of grave approval....

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