100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2] Quotes

“It looks rather come down,” said Paul. “Couldn’t you give it a pick-me-up?”
― Stendhal, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“I know you will laugh at me,” he replied, “but I really can’t exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it.”
― Stendhal, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“Jerome, Jerome K.: “Three Men in a Boat”
― Stendhal, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“You will never be worthy of happiness as long as you own anything, and your hatred of the bourgeois proceeds solely from an angry desire to be bourgeois yourselves in their place.”
― Stendhal, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.”
― Stendhal, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“The wet, red track, already sticky with fallen leaves, went up the steep bank between the grass. On either side stood the elm-trees like pillars along a great aisle, arching over and making high up a roof from which the dead leaves fell. All was empty and silent and wet.”
― Stendhal, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans.”
― Stendhal, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“For though All are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.”
― Stendhal, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“Now Antonia had observed the air, with which Don Christoval had kissed this same hand; But as She drew conclusions from it somewhat different from her Aunt’s, She was wise enough to hold her tongue. As this is the only instance known of a Woman’s ever having done so, it was judged worthy to be recorded here.”
― Stendhal, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.”
― Stendhal, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“and Night, upon her sombre throne, folds her black wings above the darkening world, and, from her phantom palace, lit by the pale stars, reigns in stillness.”
― Stendhal, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“dresses, he would give”
― Stendhal, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“Scholomance,”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“physiognomy.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“Burger’s “Lenore”.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“It must be disheartening work learning a musical instrument. You would think that Society, for its own sake, would do all it could to assist a man to acquire the art of playing a musical instrument. But it doesn’t! I knew a young fellow once, who was studying to play the bagpipes, and you would be surprised at the amount of opposition he had to contend with. Why, not even from the members of his own family did he receive what you could call active encouragement. His father was dead against the business from the beginning, and spoke quite unfeelingly on the subject. My friend used to get up early in the morning to practise, but he had to give that plan up, because of his sister. She was somewhat religiously inclined, and she said it seemed such an awful thing to begin the day like that. So he sat up at night instead, and played after the family had gone to bed, but that did not do, as it got the house such a bad name. People, going home late, would stop outside to listen, and then put it about all over the town, the next morning, that a fearful murder had been committed at Mr. Jefferson’s the night before; and would describe how they had heard the victim’s shrieks and the brutal oaths and curses of the murderer, followed by the prayer for mercy, and the last dying gurgle of the corpse. So they let him practise in the day-time, in the back-kitchen with all the doors shut; but his more successful passages could generally be heard in the sitting-room, in spite of these precautions, and would affect his mother almost to tears. She said it put her in mind of her poor father (he had been swallowed by a shark, poor man, while bathing off the coast of New Guinea — where the connection came in, she could not explain). Then they knocked up a little place for him at the bottom of the garden, about quarter of a mile from the house, and made him take the machine down there when he wanted to work it; and sometimes a visitor would come to the house who knew nothing of the matter, and they would forget to tell him all about it, and caution him, and he would go out for a stroll round the garden and suddenly get within earshot of those bagpipes, without being prepared for it, or knowing what it was. If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad. There is, it must be confessed, something very sad about the early efforts of an amateur in bagpipes.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need — a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“He firmly believed that everything he did was right, that he ought on all occasions to have his own way — and like the sting of a wasp or serpent his hatred rushed out armed and poisonous against anything like opposition. He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“He firmly believed that everything he did was right, that he ought on all occasions to have his own way — and like the sting of a wasp or serpent his hatred rushed out armed and poisonous against anything like opposition. He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“Night, upon her sombre throne, folds her black wings above the darkening world, and, from her phantom palace, lit by the pale stars, reigns in stillness.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“Pride is never so loud as when in chains.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“Though he had thrown on one side the Christian dogmas it never occurred to him to criticise the Christian ethics; he accepted the Christian virtues, and indeed thought it fine to practise them for their own sake, without a thought of reward or punishment.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick — on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“Sea-side!” said my brother-inlaw, pressing the ticket affectionately into his hand; “why, you’ll have enough to last you a lifetime; and as for exercise! why, you’ll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land.” He himself — my brother-”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible...”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

“When Ermolov, having been sent by Kutuzov to inspect the position, told the field marshal that it was impossible to fight there before Moscow and that they must retreat, Kutuzov looked at him in silence.”
― Various, 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]