Literary Quotes

"Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair." "Tell all the truth but tell it slant " "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book" "I cannot live without books" "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness" "I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." "I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy. Second, there are no tragic answers, only silent ones." "Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps " "Summer afternoon summer afternoon to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language" "The first draft of anything is shit" "The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee a clover any time to him is aristocracy" "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child" "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on." "The darkness that swallowed up Deribasovskaya Street was suffused with the scent of roses" "To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme "