65 Quotes by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.

If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.

You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this, my dear, when you have reached France, where you will find they speak nothing else.

but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.

But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.

Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.

The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.