Thoughts Quotes

The Rector of Worsted Skeynes was not tall, and his head had been rendered somewhat bald by thought. ~ The Country House by John Galsworthy "Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend," observed Poirot philosophically. "You cannot mix up sentiment and reason." ~ The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie "Yes! you are the ruin--the ruin--the ruin--of me. I have no resources in myself, I have no confidence in myself, I have no government of myself when you are near me or in my thoughts. And you are always in my thoughts now. I have never been quit of you since I first saw you. Oh, that was a wretched day for me! That was a wretched, miserable day!" ~ Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it. ~ The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope "What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!" ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen "My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world." ~ The Sign of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit,--destructive to the logical faculty." ~ The Sign of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "So few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means." ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven. ~ Howards End by E. M. Forster "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it - there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." ~ A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle