fiction quotes

Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville

Mankind was my business. Charles Dickens

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet William Shakespeare

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view George Eliot

I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul! Emily Brontë

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty would save the world Fyodor Dostoevsky

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Charles Dickens

We learn from failure, not from success! Bram Stoker

Angry people are not always wise Jane Austen

Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest Robert Louis Stevenson

Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? L. M. Montgomery

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. Franz Kafka

Real isn’t how you are made, said the Skin Horse. It’s a thing that happens to you. Margery Williams

One must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. Mary Shelley

Men make a great outward show of their so-called freedom, but those who know their inner minds are aware of their bondage. Rabindranath Tagore

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Charles Dickens

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. Jane Austen