Set > Set's Quotes

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about.”
― Robert Graves, I, Claudius

“My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“People say that celebrities stop developing emotionally at the age of their success—which for Tom had been with Risky Business at twenty-one.”
― Leah Remini, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

“I'll always say my prayers... and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi

“Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“People always clap for the wrong reasons.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress

“This hill though high I covent ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend;
For I perceive the way of life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear. ”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress From This World To That Which Is To Come

“The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Oh, there's no use talking to him. He's perfectly idiotic!”
― Lewis Caroll

“They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's anyone left alive!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.
Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out.
Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies.
Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail.
Katherine: In his tongue.
Petruchio: Whose tongue?
Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.
Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“often dost thou utter that with thy tongue which thou wouldst not make good with thy deeds.”
― Anonymous, The Mabinogion

“And then Gwalchmai said, ‘No one should distract an ordained knight from his thoughts in a discourteous way, for perhaps he has either suffered a loss or he is thinking about the woman he loves best.”
― Sioned Davies, The Mabinogion

“At that time Math son of Mathonwy could not live unless his feet were in the lap of a virgin, except when the turmoil of war prevented him.”
― Sioned Davies, The Mabinogion

“In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

“Consider anything, only don’t cry!”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

“As to your sister Brunette, she became so wicked, so insupportable, that the king hastened to give her in marriage last year to the prince Violent, who charged himself with the duty of reforming the character of the cruel and envious princess Brunette. The prince was stern and harsh. Brunette saw that her wicked heart prevented her from being happy and she commenced trying to correct her faults.”
― Comtesse de Ségur

“Prince Violent, her husband, became more amiable as Brunette became more gentle and they were very happy.”
― Comtesse de Ségur

“I know I hurt you before,” he says. “I know you’re hurting now. But I’m still going to hurt you again.”
― Iris Ann Hunter, Tragic Beauty

“Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Thus passes the glory of the world).”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ