“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”— George Eliot, amazon.comTagged: deeds, Personality
“And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.”— Henry James, amazon.comTagged: Love, Hate
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, dignified
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Hard Work, Life
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.comTagged: immoral, Books, Reading
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”— George Eliot, amazon.comTagged: Love, soulmates, Dating, Marriage
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.comTagged: publicity, The World, Gossip
“Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.”— Wilkie Collins, amazon.comTagged: Tears, Pain, young, Old
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”— Emily Brontë, amazon.comTagged: soulmates, Made for Each Other, Two Bodies (One Soul), Fear of losing someone
“Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Attraction
“I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought.”— Elizabeth Gaskell, amazon.comTagged: Love, Dating, romance
“The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground. They are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Death, Love
“Love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish.”— J. Sheridan Le Fanu, amazon.comTagged: Love, Selfish, Dating
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”— Jane Austen, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, Learning
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.comTagged: Intelligence, Life
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”— George Eliot, amazon.comTagged: Intelligence, Learning, Knowledge
“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.comTagged: beauty, appearances, desires
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.comTagged: Truth, impossible
“It has made me better, loving you. It has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morb…”— Henry James, amazon.comTagged: Love, Dating, Marriage
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.comTagged: tragic, beauty, Life
“I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in the woman who doesn't need to hide behind her husband's back. I believe that if you have problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don't play victim, you don't make yourself look pitiful, you don't…”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.comTagged: Strong Women, Independent