"Imagination is a good servant and a bad master." - Agatha Christie Spoken by that brilliant Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. A series of interl...
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"I long to do some good in the world before I leave it." - Anne Brontë From her letters. The author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë i...
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"The walls of my castle are broken, the shadows are many." - Bram Stoker, Dracula When Bram Stoker published gothic horror novel Dracula in 1897, ...
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"Strive to know yourself, for it is the most difficult lesson in the world." - Cervantes From the extraordinary Don Quixote. The maxim "know thys...
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"One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind." - Charles Dickens A traveler fades to black, leaving behind winding paths of c...
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"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby I’ve thought about this quotation often over t...
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"I would always rather be happy than dignified." - Charlotte Brontë A cyclist makes her own path. From her novel Jane Eyre. • 11x14 inch art pr...
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"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me." - Charlotte Brontë Despite being the daughters of a vicar and growing up in a parsonage, Anne, Charlotte, ...
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"No use kicking, boys." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman It’s three minutes to midnight and she’s kicking off the shackles of history. Now it’s time for...
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"When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes." - Colette The curve of a dress meets the promise of an arresting st...
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"Yet mad I am not, and very surely do I not dream." - Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat Poe was a master of the unreliable narrator, a madman who wor...
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"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing." - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence. "You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, ...
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights An egg in its nest, composed of two halves that f...
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"The sea is big and old." - Ernest Hemingway Too simple for your taste? Perhaps he should have gone with "the sea is boundless and ancient," or "t...
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"For we have thought the longer thoughts, and gone the shorter way." - Ernest Hemingway From his poem Chapter Heading. In his earlier work, Heming...
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"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The roaring twenties, when booze was illegal and...
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"Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story." - F. Scott Fitzgerald Truth may be stranger than fiction, but let's face it: fiction is fun. Re...
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"Their lips brushed like wild flowers in the wind." - F. Scott Fitzgerald From his novel This Side of Paradise. This particular quote serves as a ...
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The final line of The Great Gatsby, the Fi...
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"It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine." - Frances Hodgson Burnett A peek through a keyhole reveals a hidden, m...
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"Working in silence, the machine became invisible." - Franz Kafka A gentleman strides forth on a treadmill of ones and zeros, oblivious to the inv...
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"What am I doing here in this endless winter?" - Franz Kafka From his short, surrealist story, A Country Doctor. Although he died over a century a...
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"We are all in paradise but refuse to see it." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky in 1879: Survives Russian winters and four ...
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"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov. This passage is so awesome, we included the entire excerpt in...
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