How To Live On Twenty Four Hours A Day: "It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."Arnold Bennett4
Ulysses: "Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."James Joyce
The Riddle Of The Sands: "It seems perfectly simple and inevitable, like lying down after a long day's work."Erskine Childers
Pride And Prejudice: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."Jane Austen
Told After Supper: "It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar."Jerome K Jerome
Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Lady Of Quality: “She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Poison Belt: "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."Arthur Conan Doyle
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: “We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”Jules Verne4
A Personal Record: "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."Joseph Conrad
Tremendous Trifles: "Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before."G.K. Chesterton
Heretics: "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."G.K. Chesterton
Desperate Remedies, By Thomas Hardy: "The beautiful things of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit."Thomas Hardy
Return Of The Native, By Thomas Hardy: "Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?"Thomas Hardy
The Yellow Wallpaper: “Through literature we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.”Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Four Just Men: “An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”Edgar Wallace
The Spirit Of Japan: "I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my intrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung."Rabindranath Tagore
The Limitations Of Dickens & Other Essays: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
The Bride Of Lammermoor: "When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."Sir Walter Scott
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden: “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
Napolean Of Notting Hill: “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”G.K. Chesterton
The Novels Of George Eliot, A Review: Insightful literary criticism from one of the original masters.Henry James
The Defendant: "'My country, right or wrong,' us a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"G.K. Chesterton
The King In Yellow: “There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life.”Robert W. Chambers
Confessions Of An Inquirer: "Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Dawn Of A Tomorrow: "She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind."Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe: “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lorna Doone: "….because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?"R.D. Blackmore
Nationalism: "It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple."Rabindranath Tagore
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Stories Of The Supernatural: Victorian era supernatural collection from one of the eras most prominent supernatural women authorsMary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman