"Shirley" Quotes
"Shirley" is a novel by Charlotte Brontë that follows the lives of two independent and unconventional women in 19th-century England.
classics | 624 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
I believe that no man, that no event, is entirely without influence, and that the true nature and great events of the world are not those which can be seen and handled, as the bodies of animals, but events of the mind, worked in by the heart of man.
There is such a thing as looking through a person’s eyes into their hearts, and learning more of the depth of their spirits in five minutes, than you could learn in fifty years amongst people who never see beneath the surface.
It is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Society is not so honest as it professes to be, and it is not so honest as it ought to be. It will be wise in anyone who desires to see things as they really are, to take into account the general and rooted falseness of the world.
The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
The man who has not the power of saying 'No' has no other power.
The human heart is like India-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If 'little more than nothing will disturb it, little less than all things will suffice to break it.'
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
