GREAT QUOTES OF WILLIAM BLAKE

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF WILLIAM BLAKE

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.” - William Blake

“A truth that's told with bad intent

Beats all the lies you can invent.” - William Blake

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” - William Blake

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” - William Blake

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.” - William Blake

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” - William Blake

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” - William Blake

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.” - William Blake

“What is now proved was once only imagined.” - William Blake

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.” - William Blake

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” - William Blake

GREAT QUOTES OF WORDSWORTH

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS POETS

GREAT QUOTES OF WORDSWORTH

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” - William Wordsworth

“Fill your paper with the breathing's of your heart.” - William Wordsworth

“Though nothing can bring back the hour

Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;

We will grieve not, rather find

Strength in what remains behind;

In the primal sympathy

Which having been must ever be...” - William Wordsworth

“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop

Than when we soar.” - William Wordsworth

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” - William Wordsworth

“Nature never did betray

The heart that loved her.” - William Wordsworth

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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