Dorothy > Dorothy's Quotes

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“So there they go, Jim running slower to stay with Will, Will running faster to stay with Jim, Jim breaking two windows in a haunted house because Will’s along, Will breaking one window instead of none, because Jim’s watching. God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion.”
― H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

“Get rid of this bozo!!”
― Junji Ito, Tomie

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“We're not meant for happiness, you and I.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

“What sort of noise does a balloon make, adrift? None. No, not quite. It noises itself, it soughs, like the wind billowing your curtains all white as breaths of foam. Or it makes a sound like the stars turning over in your sleep. Or it announces itself like moonrise and moonset. That last is best: like the moon sailing the universal deeps, so rides a balloon.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their characters, and my enemies for their brains.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.”
― Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Your talk of sniffing riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.”
― J. R. R. (author) Tolkein, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: Book (1) One: The Fellowship of the Ring; Book (2) Two: The Two Towers; Book (3) Three: The Return of the King - Collector's Edition

“Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious,
Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I don’t know if these two have some sort of romance or are planning another nationwide crime.
Knowing Sahed, it could be both.”
― Míriam Bonastre Tur, Marionetta

“Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me."
"Do you mean you want a secretary or something?"
"No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca