Quotes - Maartje Volder (Tilburg, Brabant, Netherlands) Showing 1-30 of 70

#1

“Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: entrapment, supernatural, welcome

916 likes

#2

“For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

226 likes

#3

“Surely my lord will not hide his beautiful white legs!" exclaimed Infadoos regretfully.

But Good persisted, and once only did the Kukuana people get the chance of seeing his beautiful legs again. Good is a very modest man. Henceforward they had to satisfy their aesthetic longings with his one whisker, his transparent eye, and his movable teeth.”
― H.Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

tags: funny, white-legs

7 likes

#4

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”
― Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

11 likes

#5

“They were put into my pockets by Weena, when I traveled into Time.”
― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

11 likes

#6

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

2257 likes

#7

“Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

233 likes

#8

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: power-of-words

9861 likes

#9

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

667 likes

#10

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

tags: family, first-sentence

8024 likes

#11

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

3540 likes

#12

“Please, sir, I want some more.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

tags: charles-dickens, oliver-twist

150 likes

#13

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: march, summer, sun, wind, winter

1168 likes

#14

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

759 likes

#15

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

3462 likes

#16

“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: british, humor, science-fiction, social-commentary, thumb, towel

3660 likes

#17

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

7853 likes

#18

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: temptation

3865 likes

#19

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: jordan-baker

4727 likes

#20

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

37055 likes

#21

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

tags: love

24159 likes

#22

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

tags: greatness

15458 likes

#23

“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: love, women, worship

1159 likes

#24

“We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

507 likes

#25

“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, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, wisdom

430 likes

#26