Classic-literature Quotes

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink ...

Dite all’Angelo che veglierà sulla vostra vita, Morrel, di pregare qualche volta per un uomo che, si...

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. ...

LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacab...

the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.

Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the m...

To HelenI saw thee once-once only-years ago;I must not say how many-but not many.It was a july midni...

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by mano...

I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are ofte...

On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law

The moon shone upon his almost transparent hands, and Stephen saw that the nails were fearfully long...

Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious...

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you ...