Top 46 Fanu Quotes
#1. Charlotte Bronte borrowed liberally and sloppily from Joseph Sheridan le Fanu when penning Jane Eyre. The originality of this classic novel is tarnished as a result.
Andrew Barger
#2. But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#4. The nearest inhabited village is about seven of your English miles to the left.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#6. It was now the stormy equinoctial weather that sounds the wild dirge of autumn, and marches the winter in. I love, and always did, that grand undefinable music, threatening and bewailing, with its strange soul of liberty and desolation.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#7. She was slender, and wonderfully graceful. Except that her movements were languid - very languid - indeed, there was nothing in her appearance to indicate an invalid.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#9. Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#10. Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
#11. Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
#12. Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#13. The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#14. In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#15. the wicked woman's son was evidently making love to the girl. Both were standing by the old window-seat,
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#16. Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
#17. You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little ... You will be glad of this, my dear, when you have reached France, where you will find they speak nothing else.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#18. Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in flesh.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#20. The Squire came to the side of the bed, and put his arms under Dickon, and lifted the boy - in a dead sleep all the time - and carried him out so, at the door.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#21. Truth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me: you say it wearies you; But how I got it
came by it.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#23. In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#24. No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#25. There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we must study, and to whose conditions we must submit, if we would mitigate it.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
#27. the strong opinions I entertained against the marriage of first cousins,
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#28. What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#29. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#31. D'Avray, her father, and I had met before in Algeria. He was dying now. He left the child on his death-bed to me.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#32. The stream of life is black and angry; how so many of us get across without drowning, I often wonder. The best way is not to look too far before-just from one stepping-stone to another; and though you may wet your feet, He won't let you drown-He has not allowed me.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#33. I remember everything about it - with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#34. The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#35. I believe the entire natural world is but the ultimate expression of that spiritual world from which, and in which alone, it has its life.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#36. And to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to mind with ambiguous alterations
sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#37. The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#38. There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
#39. Pen, ink, and paper are cold vehicles for the marvellous, and a "reader" decidedly a more critical animal than a "listener.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#40. Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#41. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die - die sweetly die - into mine.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#42. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#44. But curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#45. Berthe was wonderfully well educated for a Frenchwoman of that period, and surprisingly handsome for a Frenchwoman of any.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#46. There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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