When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth Arthur Conan Doyle
She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment Kate Chopin
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
In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. Charles Dickens
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will Charlotte Brontë
Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone … just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde
There is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats Kenneth Grahame
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Arthur Conan Doyle
Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars Gustave Flaubert