Words of Wisdom Quotes

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. ~ The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler "It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop." ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot "The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another." ~ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw "The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated." ~ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw "Our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for." ~ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen "One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." ~ Emma by Jane Austen It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. ~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham She indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries. ~ Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned. ~ Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens "Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!" ~ Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens