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.
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery -- air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Every night when I go to bed I think, 'In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.' It hasn’t happened this morning, either.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets From the Portuguese
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
J R R Tolkien, The Return of the King
You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange -- a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
Elie Wiesel, Night
Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
William Shakespeare, Richard III
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet;
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
All for one, and one for all.
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
