fiction quotes

Second to the right, and straight on till morning. J. M. Barrie

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe James Joyce

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done Charles Dickens

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing. Herman Melville

To be, or not to be, that is the question William Shakespeare

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another. Mark Twain

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s. Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is not difficult to capture a fortress but it is difficult to win a campaign. Leo Tolstoy

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all Leo Tolstoy

I am a sick man…. I am a spiteful man. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always. Margery Williams

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears Charles Dickens

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same Emily Brontë

All children, except one, grow up. J. M. Barrie

I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. Jane Austen

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. Jane Austen

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it H. G. Wells

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick G. K. Chesterton

All right, then, I’ll go to hell Mark Twain

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Lewis Carroll

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Arthur Conan Doyle