How To Live On Twenty Four Hours A Day: "It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."Arnold Bennett4
Ulysses: "Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."James Joyce
The Riddle Of The Sands: "It seems perfectly simple and inevitable, like lying down after a long day's work."Erskine Childers
Pride And Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."Jane Austen
Told After Supper: "It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar."Jerome K Jerome
Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Lady Of Quality: “She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Poison Belt: "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."Arthur Conan Doyle
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: “We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”Jules Verne4
A Personal Record: "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."Joseph Conrad
Tremendous Trifles: "Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before."G.K. Chesterton
Heretics: "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."G.K. Chesterton
Desperate Remedies, By Thomas Hardy: "The beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit."Thomas Hardy
Return Of The Native, By Thomas Hardy: "Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?"Thomas Hardy
The Yellow Wallpaper: “Through literature we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.”Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Four Just Men: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
The Spirit Of Japan: "I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my intrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."Rabindranath Tagore
The Limitations Of Dickens & Other Essays: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
The Bride Of Lammermoor: "When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."Sir Walter Scott
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden: “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
Napolean Of Notting Hill: “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”G.K. Chesterton
The Novels Of George Eliot, A Review: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
The Defendant: "'My country, right or wrong,' us a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"G.K. Chesterton
The King In Yellow: “There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life.”Robert W. Chambers
Confessions Of An Inquirer: "Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Dawn Of A Tomorrow: "She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind."Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe: “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lorna Doone: "….because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?"R.D. Blackmore
Nationalism: "It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple."Rabindranath Tagore
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Stories Of The Supernatural: Victorian era supernatural collection from one of the eras most prominent supernatural women authorsMary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Dead Souls: “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”Nikolai Gogol
Topsy Turvy: "The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?"Jules Verne
The Prisoner Of Zenda: “I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).”Anthony Hope
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The White People: “Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Angel Of Terror: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
Alfred Lord Tennysons Drama, A Review: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
Sketches Of Young Men: “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”Charles Dickens
Under The Greenwood Tree: "If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we doomed to remain single we do."Thomas Hardy
The Aspern Papers: “I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.”Henry James
From The Earth To The Moon: “How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!”Jules Verne
An Ambitious Man: “To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Mugby Junction: “Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.”Charles Dickens
The Bird's Christmas Carol: “It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.”Kate Douglas Wiggin4
Westward Ho!: "All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."Charles Kingsley
The Fourth Plague: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace5
Elizabeth Gaskell - Lizzie Leigh: “I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.”Elizabeth Gaskell
Northanger Abbey: "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."Jane Austen
My Antonia: “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”Willa Cather5
The Profits of Religion: "The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived."Upton Sinclair
The Lady & The Law: "Did you ever know a woman who could resist looking out of a window?"Wilkie Collins
Letters Of Demonology & Witchcraft: "We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."Sir Walter Scott
An Inland Voyage: "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but playing a poor hand well."Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wreck Of The Golden Mary: "It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."Charles Dickens
The Death Of A Lion: “Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live”Henry James
An International Episode: “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”Henry James
The Evil Genius: "In one respect, men are all alike; they hate to see a woman in tears."Wilkie Collins
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court - "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus": "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."Mark Twain
The Death Of Ivan Ilych - "He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace": "He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace."Leo Tolstoy4
The Woodlanders, By Thomas Hardy: "The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."Thomas Hardy
On Kipling’s Stories And Arnold’s Essays: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
The Path Of The King: “I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”John Buchan
Lady Windemere's Fan: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”Oscar Wilde
Nana: "If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."Emile Zola
The Club Of Queer Trades: "There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked."G.K. Chesterton
The Unbearable Bassington: "I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart."Hector Munro Saki
Chance - "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth": "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."Joseph Conrad
The Lazy Tour Of Two Idle Apprentices: “I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.”Charles Dickens
The Man Who Knew Too Much: “Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.”GK Chesterton
Around the World in Eighty Days: “I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new”Jules Verne
A Cathedral Courtship: “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”Kate Douglas Wiggin
HP Lovecraft - The Essays of HP Lovecraft: "The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."H.P. Lovecraft
Red Badge Of Courage: “It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.”Stephen Crane
The Story Of The Gadsby: "One may fall but he falls by himself - Falls by himself with himself to blame."Rudyard Kipling
Master Humphrey's Clock: “I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”Charles Dickens
Ivanhoe: "All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."Sir Walter Scott
The Law Of The Four Just Men: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
Flora Annie Steel - English Fairy Tales: Classic tales, fables, lessons and stories for kidsFlora Annie Steel
The Way Of All Flesh: "Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime."Samuel Butler
Silas Marner: "There's nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself…"George Eliot
Notes From The Underground: "To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."Fyodor Dostoyevsky4.5
Tom Sawyer: Abroad: "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."Mark Twain
Confessions Of An English Opium Eater - "That those eat now who never ate before; And those who always ate, now eat the more.”Thomas De Quincey
The Water Babies: “The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”Charles Kingsley
Plain Tales from the Raj: "A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."Rudyard Kipling
The Mysterious Island. Part 1 - Dropped From the Clouds: “It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”Jules Verne
The Centre Of Indian Culture: "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."Rabindranath Tagore
The Brothers Karamazov: “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Romantic Adventures Of A Milkmaid: "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."Thomas Hardy
The Man Who Bought London: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
Typhoon: "There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea."Joseph Conrad
Riders To The Sea: “A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drownded, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But WE do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.”JM Synge
D H Lawrence - Women In Love: "Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself."DH Lawrence
The Life Of Phineas T Barnum: "Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master."Joel Benton
An Outcast Of The Islands: "It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose."Joseph Conrad
The Melody Of Death: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
The Underdogs (Los De Abajo): “Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.”Mariano Azuela
The Prince: “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”Niccolo Machiavelli
In The South Seas: "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."Robert Louis Stevenson
Orthodoxy: "The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."G.K. Chesterton
D H Lawrence - Sons & Lovers: "Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether."DH Lawrence5
The Little White Bird: “The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”JM Barrie
The Surgeon's Daughter: “Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.”Sir Walter Scott
The Pupil: “Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.”Henry James3
The Book of All Power: “I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.”Edgar Wallace
Mr Standfast: “The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.”John Buchan
The Crimes Of England: “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”G.K. Chesterton
The Battle Of Life: “I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”Charles Dickens1
A Woman Of The World: "Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air."Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A Pair Of Blue Eyes: "So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity."Thomas Hardy
The Mysterious Island. Part 3 - The Secret of the Island: “If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”Jules Verne
Night And Day: "I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything."Virginia Woolf
Sailors Fortune Essays: "Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christopher Marlowe - Massacre At Paris: "Virtue is the fount whence honour springs."Christopher Marlowe
Elizabeth Gaskell - The Poor Clare: “I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it was not me.”Elizabeth Gaskell
The American: “I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.”Henry James
Elizabeth Gaskell - Round The Sofa: "A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly."Elizabeth Gaskell
Doctor Marigold: “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”Charles Dickens
O Pioneers: “The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. ”Willa Cather
A Miscellany Of Men: "Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away."G.K. Chesterton
The Well Of The Saints: "I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen."J.M. Synge
The Snow Image: "In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel."Nathaniel Hawthorne
The King Of The Dark Chamber: "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."Rabindranath Tagore
The Woman In White: "My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."Wilkie Collins
Captains Courageous: "Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular."Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Was Thursday: "It is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely."G.K. Chesterton
The Trees Of Pride: “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”G.K. Chesterton
The Mysterious Island. Part 2 - The Abandoned: "We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."Jules Verne
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Tanglewood Tales: "….people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser…."Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Mystery of Edwin Drood: “A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”Charles Dickens
Sense And Sensibility: "I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."Jane Austen
Glimpses Of Bengal: "The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful."Rabindranath Tagore
The Lay Of The Last Minstrel: "Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."Sir Walter Scott
The Just Men Of Cordova: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace2
Black Beauty: “We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”Anna Sewell
Huntingtower: “We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.”John Buchan
Ticket 9672 aka The Lottery Ticket: "Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!"Jules Verne
The Professor: "That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure."Charlotte Bronte
Last Of The Great Scouts - The Life Story Of Buffalo Bill: As Told By His Sister Helen Cody WetmoreHelen Cody Wetmore
The Council Of Justice: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass: “Without Struggle There Is No Success”Frederick Douglass3
Twelve Types: “Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.”G.K. Chesterton
One Of Ours: "The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."Willa Cather
Prester John: "A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different."John Buchan
Creative Unity: "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."Rabindranath Tagore