Joseph Le Fanu Quotes

#1. There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#2. In our hearts do we feel a sense of gratitude and devotion to the Father? Are we of one heart with Him to whom we owe everything? The test of our devotion to the Lord seems to be the way we serve Him.

L. Tom Perry

#3. 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

#4. Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.

James Bay

#5. I did not know till now how irresolute a character was mine.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

Bryan Stevenson

#9. My tattoo is that I don't have a tattoo.

Michael J. Fox

#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. Being afraid is when you let fear control your life, let it stop you from doing what you want. When you're afraid, but you look your fear in the eye and live, that's courageous.

Vi Keeland

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#15. 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