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George Eliot: Of what use,...

George Eliot: Of what use,...

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need...

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George Eliot: I have the...

George Eliot: I have the...

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

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Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...

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Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: You couldn't be...

Lois McMaster Bujold: You couldn't be...

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into...

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Madeleine L'Engle: I love my...

Madeleine L'Engle: I love my...

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as...

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Joyce Brothers: When you come...

Joyce Brothers: When you come...

When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.

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George Eliot: Children demand that...

George Eliot: Children demand that...

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . . .

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George Eliot: An election is...

George Eliot: An election is...

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of...

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George Eliot: My own experience...

George Eliot: My own experience...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree...

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Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

You ought certainly to forgive them, as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be...

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Elinor Glyn: A madness of...

Elinor Glyn: A madness of...

A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a...

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Patricia McKillip: [Imagination] is best...

Patricia McKillip: [Imagination] is best...

[Imagination] is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent; there are few details of daily life and...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: The question was...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: The question was...

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

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Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

Source:...

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Louisa May Alcott: You have a...

Louisa May Alcott: You have a...

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest...

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George Eliot: It was not...

George Eliot: It was not...

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine...

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P D James: His sleep was...

P D James: His sleep was...

His sleep was a sensuous gluttony of oblivion.

Source: Death of an Expert Witness,...

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Jessye Norman: The very best...

Jessye Norman: The very best...

The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it...

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Emily Dickinson: I dwell in...

Emily Dickinson: I dwell in...

I dwell in Possibility --
A fairer House than Prose --
More numerous of Windows --
Superior --for Doors...

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