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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e664cf0 | O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)" | drugs drunkenness intoxication-and-sobriety | William Shakespeare | |
| 5170e84 | Give thy thoughts no tongue. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8c42815 | There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out. | William Shakespeare | ||
| fe367e5 | But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them." | William Shakespeare | ||
| abbf128 | This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven. | love soul | William Shakespeare | |
| 09cff1b | I go and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell. | Shakespeare; William | ||
| 775488c | Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. | juliet love-at-first-sight lovey-dovey play retarded romeo tragic unrealistic | William Shakespeare | |
| 065ae61 | O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. | breath death love sucked wife | William Shakespeare | |
| 0af12f4 | Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him, And all their ministers attend on him. | evil | William Shakespeare | |
| c1a431b | DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools. | deceit dishonesty falsehood hearts honesty love men payback women | William Shakespeare | |
| 63cda64 | Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night? | William Shakespeare | ||
| 4e1da29 | Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 839030f | SONNET 57 Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require. Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu; Nor dare I question with my jealous thought Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 513e1b9 | To live only to suffer--only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged--it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer? | Henry James | ||
| 72e4f56 | Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| d8bbae6 | It doesn't matter how much fabric is between us, the solid strength of his body against mine is electric. Charged. And then our arms are enveloping and our fingers are digging and our mouths are searching and our bodies find this lock. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| e9c4dd7 | sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk. | James Redfield | ||
| e0a3211 | Awwww, lame, we're not going to disneyworld. (said by the amazing talking dog, Total) | James Patterson | ||
| 031ca72 | My choices were to either give in and let them kill all of us or fight back with everything I had. I chose the second one, 'cause I'm just funny that way. | James Patterson | ||
| 05ba461 | I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival. | Quentin Blake | ||
| 193a1fe | The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed. | diplomacy mafia | Mario Puzo | |
| 19d0ae8 | No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no." | don godfather mario michael puzo | Mario Puzo | |
| db9de52 | That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself. | book books friends friendship fun funny gossip-girl happy knowledge life love quote quotes | Cecily von Ziegesar | |
| ab4662d | Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| 2eb3ade | I guess it's like an airplane: they're the drag and we're the thrust, together we make the thing fly. Too much of us and we're nose-heavy, too much of them and we're tail-heavy--it's a matter of balance. | Harper Lee | ||
| 6a5c2b8 | Miss Gates is a nice lady, ain't she?" Why sure," said Jem. "I liked her when I was in her room." She hates Hitler a lot . . ." What's wrong with that?" Well, she went on today about how bad it was him treating the Jews like that. Jem, it's not right to persecute anybody, is it? I mean have mean thoughts about anybody, even, is it?" | neighborly prejudice | Harper Lee | |
| d9e4c9d | Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another. | Harper Lee | ||
| 4200057 | You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can't understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth. | Harper Lee | ||
| 20cb812 | Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago. | Neil deGrasse Tyson | ||
| 0195180 | If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better. | Hanif Kureishi | ||
| 25ef15f | But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us. | Emily Giffin | ||
| e51b567 | Another female household-hinter gave me a recipe for a big hearty main dish of elbow macaroni, mint jelly, lima beans, mayonnaise and cheese baked until 'hot and yummy.' Unless my taste buds are paralyzed, this dish could be baked until hell freezes over and it might get hot but never 'yummy. | Betty MacDonald | ||
| 9eeb8b9 | ltra l`lm fy Hb@ rml, wlsm fy zhr@ bry@, | William Blake | ||
| 1868680 | No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer." "Only if you slide too." "I'll go first so I can catch you at the bottom." He flew down so incautiously that I suspected him of years of practice in his own castle. It was my turn. The ride was a dream, longer and steeper than the rail at home. The hall rose to meet me, and Char was there. He caught me and spun me around." | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 64fa1c0 | Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned | Gail Carson Levine | ||
| 2d1c343 | My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin | Bill Watterson | ||
| 6f1816c | If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again. | work | Bill Watterson | |
| 1eb5d68 | Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with! | David Mitchell | ||
| dee1187 | She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one. | Scott Westerfeld | ||
| 89b52b3 | What if destiny doesn't care? | goliath scott westerfeld | Scott Westerfeld | |
| 86c9807 | Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 84744b3 | Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 20fbad3 | A dream does not die on its own. A dream is vanquished by the choices ordinary people make about real things in their own lives... | Jonathan Kozol | ||
| c882ba8 | Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush"." | blankets love novel | Craig Thompson |