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. . . our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for . . . .
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. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.
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. . . rather courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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. . . she did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them . . .
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. . . she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.
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. . . so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means.
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. . . that shabby corner of God’s allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid.
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. . . the crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
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. . . the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
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. . . The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.
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. . . there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.- Charles Dickens
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. . . there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.
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. . . there is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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. . . there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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. . . there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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. . . there was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.
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. . . these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
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. . . Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
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. . . treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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