Lily Colvert > Lily's Quotes

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Yet though I must lose my life, fear shall never make me change colour.”
― W.A. Neilson, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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

“She burned too bright for this world.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“They forgot everything the minute they were together again.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Never confuse Motion with Action.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“When the well is dry we know the value of water”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin