Checkmate Quotes

“I believe people can't learn wisdom without suffering.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Checkmate

“They had spoken and passed like ships at sea, in this wide life, and now who could count the miles and billows between them! Never to cross or come in sight again!”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Checkmate

“Looks and language of hatred are not very pretty at any time, but in the atmosphere of death they acquire a character of horror.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Checkmate

“It is better to be sought after than to offer one's self.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Checkmate

“ten years of our lives were as a mist that rolls away.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Checkmate

“Truth will never spoil any one. Praise is very delightful.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Checkmate

“It has been always a rule with me to go straight at everything. I think the best diplomacy is directness, and that the truest caution lies in courage.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Checkmate

“An arrow shot into the sea, it can hurt no one.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Checkmate

“Beauty is no advantage to a man. The being agreeable is an immense one.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Checkmate

“A man is so much judged by his acquaintance; and, in fact, it is essential.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Checkmate