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May 05, 2022

GREAT QUOTES OF THOMAS HARDY

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF THOMAS HARDY

“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.” - Thomas Hardy

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.” - Thomas Hardy

“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.” - Thomas Hardy

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.” - Thomas Hardy

“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” - Thomas Hardy

“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.” - Thomas Hardy

“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.” - Thomas Hardy

“Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!” - Thomas Hardy

“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.” - Thomas Hardy

“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.” - Thomas Hardy
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GREAT QUOTES OF JANE AUSTEN

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF JANE AUSTEN


“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” - Jane Austen

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” - Jane Austen

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” -  Jane Austen

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” - Jane Austen

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” - Jane Austen

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” - Jane Austen

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” - Jane Austen

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” - Jane Austen

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” - Jane Austen

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” - Jane Austen
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GREAT QUOTES OF DOSTOEVSKY

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF DOSTOEVSKY


“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The soul is healed by being with children.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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GREAT QUOTES OF LEO TOLSTOY

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF LEO TOLSTOY


“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” - Leo Tolstoy

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.” - Leo Tolstoy

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” - Leo Tolstoy

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.” - Leo Tolstoy

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” - Leo Tolstoy

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.” - Leo Tolstoy

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.” - Leo Tolstoy

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” - Leo Tolstoy

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” - Leo Tolstoy

GREAT QUOTES OF VICTOR HUGO

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GREAT QUOTES OF VICTOR HUGO


1. "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." -Victor Hugo.

2. "Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots." -Victor Hugo.

3. "Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." -Victor Hugo, 'Les Miserables'.

4. "Taste is the common sense of genius." -Victor Hugo.

5. "He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two." -Victor Hugo.

6. "To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live." -Victor Hugo

7. "The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate." -Victor Hugo.

8. "To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further there is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life." -Victor Hugo

9. "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." -Victor Hugo.

10. "At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death." -Victor Hugo
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GREAT QUOTES OF OSCAR WILDE

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF OSCAR WILDE


“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” - Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” - Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” - Oscar Wilde

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” - Oscar Wilde

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” - Oscar Wilde

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” - Oscar Wilde

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” - Oscar Wilde

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” - Oscar Wilde

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” - Oscar Wilde

GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW


“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” -  George Bernard Shaw

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” -  George Bernard Shaw

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?” - George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” - George Bernard Shaw

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Youth is wasted on the young.” - George Bernard Shaw

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” -  George Bernard Shaw

GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL


“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” - George Orwell, 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” - George Orwell, 1984

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” -  George Orwell

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” - George Orwell, 1984

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” - George Orwell

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”-  George Orwell, 1984

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” -  George Orwell

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” - George Orwell, 1984

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” -  George Orwell

GREAT QUOTES OF ALBERT CAMUS

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF ALBERT CAMUS


“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend” -  Albert Camus

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” -  Albert Camus

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -  Albert Camus

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” - Albert Camus

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” -  Albert Camus

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” - Albert Camus

“Live to the point of tears.” - Albert Camus

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” - Albert Camus

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” - Albert Camus, The Fall

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus

GREAT QUOTES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Death should take me while I am in the mood.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

May 04, 2022

GREAT QUOTES OF HOMER

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF HOMER


“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.” - Homer, The Odyssey

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.” - Homer, The Iliad

“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” -  Homer, The Iliad

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” - Homer, The Iliad

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” - Homer, The Odyssey

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” - Homer, The Odyssey

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time” - Homer, The Odyssey

“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.” - Homer, The Odyssey

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother” - Homer, The Odyssey

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.” - Homer, The Iliad

May 03, 2022

GREAT QUOTES OF FRANZ KAFKA

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF KAFKA

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” - Franz Kafka

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.” - Franz Kafka

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” - Franz Kafka

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” - Franz Kafka

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” - Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.” - Franz Kafka

“I am free and that is why I am lost.” - Franz Kafka

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.” - Franz Kafka

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.” - Franz Kafka

GREAT QUOTES OF DANTE ALIGHIERI



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GREAT QUOTES OF DANTE



“Do not be afraid; our fate 
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.” - Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.” - Dante Alighieri

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” - Dante Alighieri

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.” - Dante Alighieri

“The path to paradise begins in hell.” - Dante Alighieri

“In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.” - Dante Alighieri

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” - Dante Alighieri

“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always” - Dante

“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.” - Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.” - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

GREAT QUOTES OF JOHN MILTON

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF MILTON


“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“What hath night to do with sleep?” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.” - John Milton, Areopagitica

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Solitude sometimes is best society.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.” - John Milton

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

GREAT QUOTES OF SHAKESPEARE

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF SHAKESPEARE

1. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

2. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

3. “Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

4. “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

5. “Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”

6. “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”

7. “How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

8. “Nothing can come of nothing.”

9. “How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

10. “What’s done can’t be undone.”

GREAT QUOTES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE


“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe


“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter


“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." -  Nathaniel Hawthorne, 

“Death should take me while I am in the mood.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne