Literary Quotes

"The world had been sad since Tuesday." "Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?" "I quote others only in order the better to express myself." "Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man." "I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it." "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." "It is the tale, not he who tells it" "I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once." "A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod" "Whose voice was more like perfume to me than any sound designed to induce crushed wings and secret obedience"