A Word To The Wise
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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."
Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: "You can still die when the sun is shining."
Ulysses: "Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."
The Riddle Of The Sands: "It seems perfectly simple and inevitable, like lying down after a long day's work."
Bridge Builders: "Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."
The Touchstone
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."
Told After Supper: "It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar."
Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Lady Of Quality: “She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Poison Belt: "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
The Purse
John Bull On The Guadalquivir
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: “We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
A Personal Record: "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
Tremendous Trifles: "Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before."
Kenilworth: "Look back, and smile on perils past."
The Mill on the Floss: "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
The Alkahest
To Be Read At Dusk: "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."
Jude The Obscure, By Thomas Hardy: "Every successful man is more or less a selfish man."
Lady Susan: "Facts are such horrid things!"
Heretics: "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
Desperate Remedies, By Thomas Hardy: "The beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit."
Allain Quartermain
Return Of The Native, By Thomas Hardy: "Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?"
The Lady Of The Lake: "Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."
The Christmas Books Of Mr M A Titmarsh
The Yellow Wallpaper: “Through literature we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.”
The Four Just Men: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”
The Spirit Of Japan: "I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my intrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."
The Limitations Of Dickens & Other Essays: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.
The Bride Of Lammermoor: "When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
The Bethrothed: "Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden: “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
Napolean Of Notting Hill: “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
The Rubaiyat: "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Mal Moulee: “A poor original is better than a good imitation.”
Beyond Good and Evil: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
The Novels Of George Eliot, A Review: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.
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.'"
The King In Yellow: “There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life.”
A Prince Of Bohemia
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."
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Dawn Of A Tomorrow: "She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind."
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe: “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
Wild Thyme In Ibiza
Lorna Doone: "….because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?"
Nationalism: "It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple."
Elizabeth Gaskell - An Accursed Race: "A man is so in the way in the house."
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Stories Of The Supernatural: Victorian era supernatural collection from one of the eras most prominent supernatural women authors
