9 quotes
People hate, as they love, unreasonably.
The Newcomes (1854)
The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
The Newcomes (1854)
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
The Newcomes (1854)
To be beautiful is enough. If a woman can do that well, who shall demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
The Newcomes (1854)
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?
The Newcomes (1854)
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
The Newcomes (1854)
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
The Newcomes (1854)
Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion; and, I believe, what are called broken hearts are very rare articles indeed.
The Newcomes (1854)
If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and if we die deplores us forever and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom—whence it passes with the pure soul beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!
The Newcomes (1854)