Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
- Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
- Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.
- Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002
- Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.
- Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002
- Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 11-28-07
- I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.
- Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
- We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
- I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring.
- Sara B. Cooper, House M.D., Love Hurts, 2004
Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..
|