Late Victorian Gothic Tales Quotes

#1. What could be said about me ... a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

Claude Monet

#2. Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. It's just my creepy science mind at work. I was thinking how bizarre it is that a parasite is growing in you and will eventually explode from your body through an extremely narrow opening, and yet you will both survive.

Erin McCarthy

#4. The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with bestial pleasures that pre-date civilisation.

Richard Luckhurst

#5. Needless to say, food is used to constrain as well as to unify the members of many faiths. Most religions meddle in the day-to-day culinary habits of their adherents.

Michael Krondl

#6. They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them.

Grant Allen

#7. This class has always to sacrifice a part of itself in order not to be wholly destroyed.

Karl Marx

#8. Investors need to pick their poison: Either make more money when times are good and have a really ugly year every so often, or protect on the downside and don't be at the party so long when things are good.

Seth Klarman

#9. The National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 needs to be updated to reflect our growing communities.

John Barrasso

#10. Frivolous Gossip and Poetry
It's just so much frivolous gossip to dwell upon the moral merits of a poet;
what should only concern the reader is the merit of his words.
Leave moral judgments to the preachers and aesthetic judgments to the critical readers.

Beryl Dov

#11. There's a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.

Prince Harry

#12. What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering. (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)

Donald E. Westlake

#13. In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

John Gay

#14. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done.

G.H. Hardy

#15. May, notwithstanding, be questioned whether, except his bible, he ever read a book entirely through. Late in life, if any man praised a book in his presence, he was sure to ask, "Did you read it through?" If the answer was in the affirmative, he did not seem willing to believe it.

Samuel Johnson