Today Quotes
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O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!Sophocles, Oedpius Rex
No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!Thomas Hood (1799-1845), in the poem called No!
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butler
"Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
You have delighted us long enough.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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, Pride and Prejudice
The ingenuity of the device blinds us to its utter uselessness.Anonymous British civil servant, "Take Her Deep" by I.J. Galatin, Cdr., US Navy, ret.