Nicolas > Nicolas's Quotes

“Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

“Un matrimonio dovrebbe basarsi sulla reciproca incomprensione.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami