Five Sunny Quotes from Literature

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Sun QuotesHappy Friday!  I hope your weekend will prove to be nice and sunny.  If not, hopefully spring will be coming your way soon!

The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on. ~  The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

“I don’t want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you.” ~  Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The whole earth was brimming sunshine that morning. She tripped along, the clear sky pouring liquid blue into her soul. ~  Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” ~ Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare

“The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.” ~ Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quote Photo

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Here’s a quote photo to share with friends and family.  I’ve also posted it on the LitQuotes Facebook page as well as our new Google Plus page for easier sharing.

“The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.” ~  The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

What a man may do in the future

David Copperfield Quote Photo – Love and Truth are Stronger

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“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.” ~  David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Love and Truth

Here’s a quote photo to share with friends and family.  I’ve posted it on the LitQuotes Facebook page for easier sharing. It’s also on the LitQuotes Pinterest page.

Ten Noteworthy Quotes – Words of Wisdom From Books

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20130419booksMorning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of Life, and brightened it so much that it scarcely seemed the same. ~  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, As self-neglecting.” ~  Henry V by William Shakespeare

“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble.” ~ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. ~ Paradise Lost by John Milton

“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” ~ Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice. ~ Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

“We learn from failure, not from success!” ~  Dracula by Bram Stoker

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour. ~  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

“This above all,–to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” ~  Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

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Ten Quotes About Money From Literature

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Here are ten quotes from literature about money.

“Simple, generous goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.” ~  Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

But the Law is still, in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse. ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

“Life and money both behave like loose quicksilver in a nest of cracks. And when they’re gone we can’t tell where–or what the devil we did with ’em!” ~ The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Rich folks may ride on camels, but it an’t so easy for ’em to see out of a needle’s eye. That is my comfort, and I hope I knows it.” ~  Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

“Look at that sea, girls–all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.” ~ Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Remuneration! O, that’s the Latin word for three farthings.” ~ Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare

“Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son’s education, than leave it him in your will.” ~ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

“Money pads the edges of things.” ~  Howards End by E. M. Forster

“Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.” ~ Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde

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The Selected Letters of Willa Cather Available for Pre-Order

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Willa Cather LettersThe Selected Letters of Willa Cather will be released on April 16th.   Although if it would have been up to Cather, her letters would never be read by the public.

She forbade the publication of the letters in her will.  However the editors of the book state that while they’re not following the letter of Cather’s will, they are following its intent.  They state that Cather wanted people to focus more on her work than her personal life.  More than sixty five years after her passing, Cather’s literary legacy is secure.

The 566 letters collected here, nearly 20 percent of the total, range from the funny (and mostly misspelled) reports of life in Red Cloud in the 1880s that Cather wrote as a teenager, through those from her college years at the University of Nebraska, her time as a journalist in Pittsburgh and New York, and during her growing eminence as a novelist. Postcards and letters describe her many travels around the United States and abroad, and they record her last years in the 1940s, when the loss of loved ones and the disasters of World War II brought her near to despair. Written to family and close friends and to such luminaries as Sarah Orne Jewett, Robert Frost, Yehudi Menuhin, Sinclair Lewis, and the president of Czechoslovakia, Thomas Masaryk, they reveal her in her daily life as a woman and writer passionately interested in people, literature, and the arts in general.

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Arnold Bennett 1867 – 1931

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Arnold Bennett Quotes British author Enoch Arnold Bennett was born on May 27, 1867 and died on March 27, 1931. He’s remembered for more than his plays and novels, he’s also remembered because of a recipe.   Bennett was a frequent visitor at the Savoy Hotel.  Whenever he ate there he ordered an omelette made with smoked haddock, Parmesan cheese and cream.  The Savoy renamed the dish Omelette Arnold Bennett.

While I was unable to find a current menu from The Savoy Grill, a restaurant review from 2010 mentions the dish.   If you’d like to make the dish at home, here’s the recipe.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it’s magnificent. It’s like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. ~ The Title by Arnold Bennett