Emotions and Feelings

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again.

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful!

You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius! … You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

Those have most power to hurt us that we love.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

I hurry to laugh at everything, for fear of having to weep at it.

I hurry to laugh at everything, for fear of having to weep at it.

I’m as pure as the driven slush.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world.

Lucid intervals and happy pauses.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, ‘The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, what a dust do I raise.’

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

It redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?