Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.
I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.
But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.
In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.
So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.
of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.
Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.
I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.
who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!
the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.
Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.
The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.
Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.