“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” ~ Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Never Doubt Quote Photo
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
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Jane Austen Bandages?
Yes, someone actually makes Jane Austen bandages
Here’s the product description:
What better to protect your wounds than an author synonymous with the romance of the landed gentry? Each of the fifteen 3″ x 1″ (7.6 cm x 2.5 cm) plasters, that’s UK for bandages, comes in a 3-3/4″ (9.5 cm) tall metal tin and has one of 2 images of Jane Austen or one of 7 quotes from her best work. If the image of Jane Austen doesn’t distract you from your pain, you also get a FREE temporary tattoo. Latex free adhesive.
Diogenes Club Shirts, Bags and More
Check out the new Diogenes Club design at our gift shop. You can find the design on shirts, note cards, bags and more.
“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Stranger’s Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere.”
— The Greek Interpreter
Nothing Else to Give Quote Photo
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Five Quotes about Time from Literature
Did you remember to turn your clocks back this morning? To mark our return to standard time, here are five quotes about time from literature.
For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement. ~ Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
Time will explain. ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen
Passion takes no count of time; peril marks no hours or minutes; wrong makes its own calendar; and misery has solar systems peculiar to itself. ~ The True Story of Guenever by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
She had lived solely for the little things of life—the things that pass—forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity, bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing from one dwelling to the other—from twilight to unclouded day. ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery
See the Entire Collection of Time Quotes from Literature
Happy Halloween!
I hope you all have a fun and spooky Halloween. Here are some of my favorite scary quotes in honour of the day . . . .
“Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part–once in bed, you’re safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you’re safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.” ~ This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
All things pass. Only remain cosmic force and matter, ever in flux, ever acting and reacting and realizing the eternal types—the priest, the soldier, and the king. Out of the mouths of babes comes the wisdom of all the ages. Some will fight, some will rule, some will pray; and all the rest will toil and suffer sore while on their bleeding carcasses is reared again, and yet again, without end, the amazing beauty and surpassing wonder of the civilized state. ~ The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
‘Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound-strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow. ~ Bleak House by Charles Dickens
It used to puzzle him that, after dark, someone would look in round the edge of the bedroom door, and withdraw again too rapidly for him to see the face. ~ The Other Wing by Algernon Blackwood
Just in time for Halloween – This House Is Haunted
I blame Charles Dickens for the death of my father.
So begins This House is Haunted by John Boyne. While the novel isn’t about Dickens, his name comes up frequently. And those of you that like Dickens’s style of writing are sure to adore this scary tale.
In this novel, reminiscent of Jane Eyre and The Turn of the Screw, Eliza Caine accepts the position of governess at Gaudline Hall. But things are a little off at Gaudline Hall. The children seem to be all on their own. The people in town seem to know a lot more than they’re telling. What is it exactly that they’re afraid to say? Could it relate to the odd feeling that Eliza has about Gaudline Hall?
This is the perfect book for this spooky time of year.
From the moment Eliza rises the following morning, her every step seems dogged by a malign presence that lives within Gaudlin’s walls. Eliza realizes that if she and the children are to survive its violent attentions, she must first uncover the hall’s long-buried secrets and confront the demons of its past. Clever, captivating, and witty, This House Is Haunted is pure entertainment with a catch.
New Quotes Added – Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell and More
I hope you all had a nice weekend. I spent some of my spare time adding new quotes to the database. Here are some of my favorites. AND if you have a quote that you’d like to see added, feel free to contribute a quote.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ~ Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime by Oscar Wilde
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. ~ The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
What is the meaning of life? That was all–a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. ~ To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
New Dracula TV Show
Just in time for Halloween comes a new TV show based on Dracula by Bram Stoker. Dracula debuts October 25th.
In the NBC series Dracula comes to Victorian London, posing as an American entrepreneur with an interest in modern science. (Electricity must have been very popular with the living dead crowd.) However our favorite vamp has a darker goal in mind. He’s seeking revenge on those who betrayed him long ago.