100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1 Quotes

“This she might not attempt. It was unladylike. Why? Why were most big things unladylike? Charlotte had once explained to her why. It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves.”
― Big Cheese Books, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

“never heard of “Uglification,”’ Alice ventured to say. ‘What is it?”
― Big Cheese Books, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

“Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,’ thought Alice; ‘but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!”
― Big Cheese Books, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

“Oh, you can’t help that,’ said the Cat: ‘we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.’ ‘How do you know I’m mad?’ said Alice. ‘You must be,’ said the Cat, ‘or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Big Cheese Books, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

“Among his books!” she cried, confounded. “And I dying! I on the brink of the grave! My God!”
― Big Cheese Books, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

“The question strikes at the root of many a social injustice. Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness. Do we not, one and all, like to feel our strength even at the expense of some one or of something?”
― Big Cheese Books, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

“And”
― Big Cheese Books, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
― Big Cheese Books, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

“You are not without the capacity of veneration, and faith and hope, and conscience and reason, and every other requisite to a Christian’s character, if you choose to employ them; but all our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil, till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.”
― Big Cheese Books, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

“great charm of all power is”
― Big Cheese Books, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

“The little witch put a mock malignity into her beautiful eyes, and Joseph, trembling with sincere horror, hurried out praying and ejaculating”
― Big Cheese Books, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

“refreshment.”
― Charles Dickens, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1