| Quote | Author |
Source |
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
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| George R. R. Martin | A Storm of Swords |
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?
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| Anthony Trollope | The Warden |
Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
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| H. G. Wells | The Invisible Man |
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
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| Anthony Trollope | Phineas Redux |
There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man – with human flesh.
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| Frank Herbert | Dune |
"Like all great travellers." said Essper, "I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
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| Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey |
"Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living."
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| George Eliot | Middlemarch |
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
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| William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.
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| Frank Herbert | Children of Dune |
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class — whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
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| Frank Herbert | Children of Dune |
