COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
|
|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
|
|
Home Page |
GIGA Quotes |
Biographical Name Index |
Chronological Name Index |
Topic List |
Reading List |
Site Notes |
Crossword Solver |
Anagram Solver |
Subanagram Solver |
LexiThink Game |
Anagram Game |
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued. - [Coquette] Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools. - [Amiability] Guilt soon learns to lie. - [Guilt] How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world! - [Indifference] Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs. - [Virtue] Talent is always queer-tempered. - [Talent] That exuberant age when all fresh fancies are fevers. - [Youth] The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone. - [Repentance] There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die. - [Remorse] Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well? - [Love] It lay down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which the cattle looked inquisitively at you as you passed, wondering, perhaps, what you wanted; for there was no thoroughfare, and unless you were going to the Court you had no business there at all. - Lady Audley's Secret (ch. I) [Books (First Lines)]
Support GIGA. Buy something from Amazon. |
|