10 beautiful quotes from novels, plays and poetry.
Quotes from novels, poetry, plays and letters by some of the greatest writers. 10 beautiful moments....
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days—three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
- John Keats (Letters)
"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart!"
- Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
- Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)
"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
- Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)
"I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!"
- Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire)
"Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love."
- William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
- Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."
- Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
"For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils."
- William Wordsworth (I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud)
"Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender Is the Night)