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    William Shakespeare
    “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
    William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
    sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #3
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

  • #8
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #8
    Cassandra Clare
    “Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #9
    William Shakespeare
    “O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.”
    William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

  • #10
    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Emily Brontë
    “And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #11
    Cassandra Clare
    “They’re not hideous,” said Tessa.
    Will blinked at her. “What?”
    “Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.”
    “I spoke,” said Will, in sepulchral tones, “of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls.”
    Tessa snorted. “And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?”
    “Mauve,” said Will.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

  • #14
    William Shakespeare
    “Villain, what hast thou done?
    Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
    Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
    Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.”
    William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

  • #16
    Robert A. Caro
    “But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
    Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power

  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
    William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

  • #18
    George Gissing
    “A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.”
    George Gissing, The Odd Women

  • #19
    William Shakespeare
    “Is he not approved in the height a villain that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands, and then, with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour - O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.”
    William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

  • #20
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #21
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #23
    Emily Brontë
    “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #24
    George Gissing
    “Heart-break is a very old-fashioned disorder, associated with poverty of the brain.”
    George Gissing, The Odd Women

  • #24
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #25
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #29
    Victor Hugo
    “There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #30
    John Milton
    “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #31
    Oscar Wilde
    “Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #32
    H.G. Wells
    “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
    H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

  • #33
    John Milton
    “What hath night to do with sleep?”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #34
    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm



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