Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. (Emma)
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. (Mansfield Park)
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. (Northanger Abbey)
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. (Emma)
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. (Pride and Prejudice)
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. (Pride and Prejudice)
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. (All's Well That End's Well, Act 1 Scene 1)
Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. (Measure For Measure)
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. (Hamlet)
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks! (Macbeth)
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones. (Julius Caesar)
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. (King Richard the third)
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. (Romeo and Juliet)
What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief. (The Winter's Tale)
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. (As You Like It)
Lord, what fools these mortals be!(A Midsummer's Night Dream)
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again. (Othello)
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. (Julius Caesar)
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds. (sonnet cxvi)
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