25 Quotes by Ethel Lilian Voynich

It was the Gadfly whose eyes sank first. He shrank down, hiding his face; and Montanelli understood that the gesture meant "Go!" He turned, and went out of the cell. A moment later the Gadfly started up."Oh, I can’t bear it! Padre, come back! Come back!"The door was shut. He looked around him slowly, with a wide, still gaze, and understood that all was over. The Galilean had conquered.

The longer a thing is to take doing, the more reason to begin at once

We are all fit for better things than we ever do

It matters just as much what to do, whether people hate you or love you

The training of children is such a serous thing, and it means so much to them to be surrounded from the very beginning with good influences, that I should have thought the holier a man`s vocation and the purer his life, the more fit he is to be a father

In this month he had been too happy to sin much

On and on he wandered, and came out upon the sea-shore, on the barren rocks where the fierce light struck down, and the water moaned its low, perpetual wail of unrest. "Ah!" he said; "the sea will be more merciful; it, too, is wearied unto death and cannot sleep."Then Arthur rose up from the deep, and cried aloud:"This sea is mine!

What is the use of vows? They are not what binds people. If you feel in a certain way about a thing, that binds you to it".''Ràng buộc con người không phải là lời thề. Chỉ cần mình tự cảm thấy thiết tha với một điều nào đó, thế là đủ rồi'' (Vietnamese)

Netrukus saulė, raudona kaip žarija, pasislėpė už dantytos kalno viršūnės, ir visa gyvybė bei šviesa geso. Tuojau slėnį apgaubė grėsminga tamsa. Stačios pilkų kalnų uolos vakaruose atrodė lyg pabaisos dantys, tykantys pagriebti auką ir nutempti ją į juodas gilaus slėnio žiotis, kur raudojo girios. <...> - Padre! Tai panašu į pragarą. – Ne, mano sūnau, tik į žmogaus sielą. – Į sielas tų, kurie klaidžioja tamsybėje ir mirties šešėly? – Į sielas tų, kurie kasdien praeina pro tave gatvėje.