I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money us!

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

Time has dealt kindly with that stout officer, as it does ordinarily with men who have good stomachs and good tempers, and are not perplexed over much by fatigue of the brain.

A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object.

... nobody does anything for nothing. ... it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.

Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

They talked about each others’ houses, and characters, and families--just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.

Your comedy and mine will have been played then, and we shall be removed

...to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.

..the dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers

And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

Are not there little chapters in everybody’s life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

The stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

Mother is God in the eyes of a child.

Lumea e o oglinda care ofera inapoi fiecaruia reflectia propriului chip. Daca te incrunti se incrunta si ea inapoi spre tine, daca razi devine si ea o companie vesela si placuta

His first and only love, whom he had adored ever since when? – ever since yesterday, ever since for ever.

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

Charming Alnaschar visions! It is the happy privilege of youth to construct you, and many a fanciful creature besides Rebecca Sharp has indulged in these delightful daydreams ere now!

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.

When you stop growing you start dying.

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.