65 Quotes by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so.

It stands on a slight eminence.

Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?

The nearest inhabited village is about seven of your English miles to the left.

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.

Boating, my dear Mrs. Bedel, is the dullest of all things; don’t you think so? Because a boat looks very pretty from the shore, we fancy that the shore must look very pretty from a boat; and when we try it, we find we have only got down into a pit and can see nothing rightly. For my part, I hate boating and I hate the water...

The Squire came to the side of the bed, and put his arms under Dickon, and lifted the boy – in a dead sleep all the time – and carried him out so, at the door.

The gloom was increased by several grand old trees.

I believe the entire natural world is but the ultimate expression of that spiritual world from which, and in which alone, it has its life.