English Novelist Quotes
825 English Novelist quotes:
"Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew."
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"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."
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"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."
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"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."
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"Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china."
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"Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs."
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"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine."
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"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
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Contrast Quotes
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"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress."
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"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
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"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness."
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"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."
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"A boy's story is the best that is ever told."
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"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
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"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."
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"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."
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"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations."
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"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."
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"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."
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Disappointment Quotes
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"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."
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