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Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a...

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Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can...

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John Fowles: The supposed great...

John Fowles: The supposed great...

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

Source: The French...

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Marquis de Sade: All universal moral...

Marquis de Sade: All universal moral...

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Source: The 120 Days of...

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Graham Henry Greene: God forbid people...

Graham Henry Greene: God forbid people...

God forbid people should read our books to find the juicy passages.

Source: The...

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Graham Henry Greene: God. . ....

Graham Henry Greene: God. . ....

God. . . created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of...

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George Eliot: No great deed...

George Eliot: No great deed...

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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George Eliot: Any coward can...

George Eliot: Any coward can...

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of...

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George Eliot: I have the...

George Eliot: I have the...

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

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Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a...

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Jane Austen: It is a...

Jane Austen: It is a...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a...

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Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...

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Jane Austen: The sooner every...

Jane Austen: The sooner every...

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Source: Emma, Ch. 25
-- Jane...

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Richard Bach: Sooner or later,...

Richard Bach: Sooner or later,...

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Source: In The...

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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 mistake was...

Charles Dickens: The mistake was...

The mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my...

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Charles Dickens: Some people ....

Charles Dickens: Some people ....

Some people . . . may be Rooshans, and others may be Prooshans; they are born so, and will please themselves. Them...

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Charles Dickens: God bless us...

Charles Dickens: God bless us...

'God bless us every one!' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

Source: A Christmas...

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Charles Dickens: Uriah, with his...

Charles Dickens: Uriah, with his...

Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist...

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Charles Dickens: Such is hope,...

Charles Dickens: Such is hope,...

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things...

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