Favourite Literary Quotes

[SaraHoliday]

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

• Hamlet -

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
That’s one of my favourites (obviously)

When you look at it, the whole story of Fanny Harville and Captain Benwick and Louisa was leading up to Anne saying that, the speech on which the whole plot turns.

A lesson in how to structure a novel.

I once read an article about Persuasion in which the author pointed out that although Anne was disregarded by her family, she was admired by virtually every male character in the book, either in a brotherly or friendly way, or romantically.

For he knows we are but dust * and that our days are few and brief, like grass, like flowers, *blown by the wind and gone forever.

"When religion and politics ride in the same cart and are driven by a righteous man nothing can withstand it."

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind."

Dune, Frank Herbert.

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Henry David Thoreau.