1,336 Quotes About Novel

Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me

They aren't capable of doing this... look their thoughts, look how they run, look their faces... So far this tells everything about them,...(Salem's Lot)

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

Life's Tangled TrailLife with its burdens saved by force; in spite of our blunders, held its course. Then comes confusion as senses react. We strive to learn whether mystic or fact.Eventually consciousness, shocking and bold to solve life's problems, the new and the old.

As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.

I likened her to the slender PSYCHÉ and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything unclean around her: The dusty hems of her bunched-up skirt, the worn straps of her nightshirt; the blackened soles of her bare feet [...] All this and the pungent air! Ô this night, sweet pungent night! "HÉBÉ" may come but a season. But this girl's season would know a hot spring and an Indian summer.

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

Kant also identified idle desires with wishing and active desire with willing, and he seemed to think that one of the problems of his contemporaries was the confusion between the two.
People read novels and allow themselves to become subject to passionate yearnings and be preoccupied by ‘true ideals’ that get in the way of active desires.

-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?I said nothing.-Deny it,damn you!