19th Century Literature Quotes

“Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair."
"Why should you, with so much energy and talent?"
"That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try anymore.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“To be everywhere at once and to know everybody was, after all, but to slip the cables of the tiny, separate self, and experience the Whole. Hence the desire to be elsewhere and otherwise. Hence, too, the innate yearning to share experiences of all kinds with others.”
― Algernon Blackwood, The Promise of Air

“It is a long way from these strict parents to the child-spoilers of today.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800

“I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights : Penguin Classics

“All distinct traces of their origin are lost.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Round the Sofa

“He was thoughtful and grave----but the order he gave, were enough to bewilder a crew.”
― Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark

“There's a difference between faking things and hiding them, my dear Charlotte.”
― Akshat Pathak

“A pretty face is of no use, but to blind a lover;”
― Mary Brunton, Self-control: A Novel

“Just dealing with flaws, looking into your eyes, and feeling the lip-gloss of your smile, Jenny.”
― Akshat Pathak