“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation.”
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
― Pride and Prejudice
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
― Pride and Prejudice
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