fiction quotes

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. Jane Austen

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald

For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me. A. A. Milne

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Oscar Wilde

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Charles Dickens

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare

Thou must keep in view what thou art, striving to know thyself, the most difficult thing to know that the mind can imagine Miguel de Cervantes

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—’Wait and hope.’ Alexandre Dumas

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s H. G. Wells

We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad. Lewis Carroll

You see, but you do not observe. Arthur Conan Doyle

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. Charlotte Brontë

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. Jane Austen

Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. Frances Hodgson Burnett

Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle! Lewis Carroll

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott

Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful. Mary Shelley

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour. Charles Dickens

Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop. Lewis Carroll

There is no place like home. L. Frank Baum

If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. Frances Hodgson Burnett

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is not down in any map; true places never are. Herman Melville

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. L. M. Montgomery

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact Arthur Conan Doyle

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. Fyodor Dostoevsky