Jamie Clark

“That such a slave as this should wear a sword,
Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,
Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain
Which are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passion
That in the natures of their lords rebel,
Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,
Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks
With every gale and vary of their masters
Knowing naught, like dogs, but following.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“In the same way, the action Adelaida Ivanovna Miusov was doubtless an echo of foreign influences, the chafings of a mind imprisoned”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Isn’t the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment’s desolate attic?”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

“Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit:
All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear