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