19th-century Novelist Quotes

I send thee pansies while the year is young,
Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night;
Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung
By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light.

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have it in their power to bestow.

Civilization without its appliances is weaker than barbarism.

Theodore Winthrop
Theodore Winthrop
For true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!

We are very aware that we are in the middle of a war. But we are still continuing our calm and monotonous lives.

Zabel Yesayan
Zabel Yesayan
My love for my father has never been touched or approached by any other love. I hold him in my heart of hearts as a man apart from all other men, as one apart from all other beings.

Mary Dickens
Mary Dickens
Her own excited feelings had magnified it in length, and breadth, and height — had made a molehill into a mountain...

Ellen Wood (author)
Ellen Wood (author)
Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

Umberto Saba
Umberto Saba
Tell England, ye who pass this monument,
We died for her, and here we rest content.

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

Mortimer Collins
Mortimer Collins
Tell him I will bear my disgrace like an Indian and will wait to strike till the time is in my favor.

Conrad Richter
Conrad Richter
It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.

Her beauty, passive in despair, Through sand and seaweed shone, The fairest jelly-fish I e'er Had set mine eyes upon. It would have made a stone abuse The callousness of fate, This creature of prismatic hues, Stranded and desolate!

I know heaps of quotations, so I can always make quite a fair show of knowledge.

An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.

While beer brings gladness, don't forget That water only makes you wet!

The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.

There's Conservatives an' they want to make things better by keepin' 'em jus' like what they are now. An' there's Lib'rals an' they want to make things better by alterin' them jus' a bit, but not so's anyone'd notice, an' there's communists an' they want to make things better by killin' everyone but themselves.

Richmal Crompton
Richmal Crompton
O Time, thou that consumest all things! O envious age, thou destroyest all things and devourest all things with the hard teeth of the years, little by little, in slow death!

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!

Florence L. Barclay
Florence L. Barclay
Nature is a good mother, after all, in our latitude. She does not coddle and over-indulge her children, but rewards their love abundantly, invigorates them if they dwell in her presence, and develops mind and muscle, heart and soul, if they obey her laws and seek to know her well.

In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.

There is no power in nature which from nothing could have made the universe, and none which could reduce the universe to nothing:

London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches.

Natsume Sōseki
Natsume Sōseki