Daily Quotes

The LitQuote for March 18th, 2010 is:

"The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades when speaking fails."

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare    Email Quote

The LitQuote Duo for today is: (What is a LitQuote Duo?) Sometimes quotes, like chocolate chip cookies, are best served in pairs. Duos may be similar, surprising, contradictory or odd. They can make you smile or even make you think. Visit us every day for a new LitQuote Duo! Close Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these! Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens    Email Quote In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf    Email Quote Do we love life even more because it's so tenuous?