Words of Wisdom Quotes

"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule." ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised." ~ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain "The average man don't like trouble and danger." ~ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~ The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot "People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors." ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot "I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane." ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker "Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play." ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker "I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea." ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker