If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Biti dobro upućen u stvari znači lišiti druge mogućnosti da udovolje svojoj taštini, što će pametan čovek uvek nastojati da izbegne.

You're not lost, so long as you know your way back home.

Seeing as this is probably my last hurrah, I don't suppose I could get you two bleeding hearts to massacre a village with me? For old time's sake. - Jackal

Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least good friends we know So live and laugh nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.

The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.

I think there's always a lesson you can learn from any situation.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.

National Guard soldiers, as you know, give up their jobs, their time with their family, make sacrifices to make sure this country is safe.

The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.