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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fbd9767 | This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 348f379 | Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain. | entitlement excess gain greed insatiability possessions | William Shakespeare | |
| 4082ec9 | I pray thee, cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve: give not me counsel; Nor let no comforter delight mine ear But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine: ... for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Ch.. | William Shakespeare | ||
| db34b58 | 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. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. .. | William Shakespeare | ||
| ed628da | The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desired. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 7ee8b2b | Totus mundus agit histrionem. " [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]" | stage universe world | William Shakespeare | |
| 6943a30 | Our wills and fates do so contrary run. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 5840c64 | This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 8d2bc30 | for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him. | William Shakespeare | ||
| cf8800b | Speak low if you speak love. | William Shakespeare | ||
| 22a3010 | What, you egg? [He stabs him.] | tumblr william-shakespeare | William Shakespeare | |
| 9dab152 | Her memory's your love. You want no other. | Henry James | ||
| 6eba5b2 | her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. | sarcasm smile | Henry James | |
| 3f4db1c | If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. | work | Henry James | |
| cf07136 | He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him. | Henry James | ||
| 12359b5 | But I'm worse. I'm a child playing dress-up, who can't even recognize herself under her own costume. | Stephanie Perkins | ||
| d3450e5 | Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word! | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 89e8c6e | To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said 'I've a sceptre in hand, I've a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| a9abc8d | and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook. I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last. 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere--and so there are!' she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began .. | game | Lewis Carroll | |
| 616d125 | To be sure I was!' Humpty Dumpty said gaily, as she turned it round for him. 'I thought it looked a little queer. As I was saying, that SEEMS to be done right--though I haven't time to look it over thoroughly just now--and that shows that there are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents--' Certainly,' said Alice. And only ONE for birthday presents, you know. There's glory for you!' I don't know what you me.. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 5463255 | I daresay you haven't had much practice. When I was your age I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. | Lewis Carroll | ||
| 30dad32 | A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 10dca83 | Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass. | Lawrence Durrell | ||
| 30c5122 | loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves. | James Redfield | ||
| 7e59f74 | Yeah sure,why not?"i said,making a mental note to get a good look at his wings. For all I knew, they were remote-controlled and duct taped to his back." -max" | James Patterson | ||
| a19ee35 | It's okay, Ig." said Fang. "Just give it your best shot." Sometimes the Fangster is incredibly supportive, just not with me." | fang iggy lol maximum-ride | James Patterson | |
| 0ea6992 | n 'Glb lns qd `shw Hdthan wHdan `l~ l'ql khll Hythm y`d Hdthan frydan Hqan, wySlH tmman lSyGth fy qS@ qSyr@. | stories | Jeffrey Archer | |
| bb75783 | We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 0b5f76e | Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross | dirge glory jack-goldenberg | Maya Angelou | |
| b38a97e | Imagine, I might really become somebody. Someday. | Maya Angelou | ||
| 725abea | It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it... | obsession | Zoë Heller | |
| 0cb57a9 | Can't you just be like the rest of us, normal and sad and fucked up and alive and remorseful? | Miriam Toews | ||
| 7841433 | Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win. | inspirational | Nancy Farmer | |
| 5468380 | Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world. | observation | Nancy Farmer | |
| 194b72a | To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. "--I sometimes doubt if he's human," said Will, speaking his thought aloud. "It's probably all done with wheels." | Dorothy Dunnett | ||
| 3098dfd | The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all. | jon-snow magic | George R.R. Martin | |
| c828cb9 | I have been despised by better men than you. | George R.R. Martin | ||
| d1676f3 | Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves." | Charles de Lint | ||
| 8b9299a | It's an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles. | Patricia A. McKillip | ||
| 1311ea9 | All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time. | Marguerite Duras | ||
| 945b848 | It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste. | aging-gracefully | Marguerite Duras | |
| 6c41455 | There is no room in my body for anything but you. | William Goldman | ||
| f2447da | My heart was now a secret garden and the walls were very high. | William Goldman | ||
| df2128b | The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process. | individuality journey process | Yvon Chouinard |