English-literature Quotes

The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had...

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to...

But why," he said with animation, "do the English not read their own great literature?"Victor laughe...

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poet...

Here rests his head upon the lap of earthA youth to fortune and to fame unknown.Fair Science frowned...