139 ratings (4.70 avg)
0 reviews

Fiona

Add friend

Fiona’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (132)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (137)

really-really-good‎ (2)

Stats | More…

Fiona’s Quotes

“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

tags: classics, humor, satire, vanity

305 likes

“Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

115 likes

“No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.”
― Henry Fielding, Tom Jones

tags: literary

86 likes

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

765 likes

“Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

143 likes

More of Fiona’s quotes…