Irene > Irene's Quotes

“Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?”
― Abigail Reynolds, The Last Man in the World

“I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.”
― Abigail Reynolds, Pemberley by the Sea

“Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, ‘I’m in love with a man and I can’t have him.’ But that would only lead to questions she couldn’t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside, hoping someday she would no longer feel as if half of her were missing.”
― Abigail Reynolds, The Man Who Loved Pride & Prejudice

“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”
― Jane Austen

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Dum Spiro, spero”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. this is my symphony.”
― William Ellery Channing

“You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”
― James V. Hart, Hook

“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“no matter how hard we try to be mature, we will always be a kid when we all get hurt and cry”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Do you want an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
― J.M. Barrie

“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”
― J.M. Barrie

“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
― Sir James Barrie, Peter Pan

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
― J.M. Barrie

“If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”
― J.M. Barrie

“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
― J.M. Barrie

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
― James Matthew Barrie

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.”
― Martin Luther