“Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.”
“The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.”
Source: Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)
“There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.”
“I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.”
Source: The Waverly Novels: 26 Books in One Volume – Complete Collection: Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Waverly, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian, The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, Kenilworth, Legend of Montrose
“In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…
“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”
Source: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories
“The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.”
Source: Early Poems
“A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.”
Source: The Forgotten Soldier