Point of view Quote by Dante Alighieri

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its beauty, grandeur…

— José Saramago

“For in the latter days of that passionate life that lay now so far behind him, the conception of a free and equal manhood…

— H.G. Wells

“In Rome, a woman’s power, however circumspectly exercised, arouses revulsion. Every death in my family circle has been laid at my door.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

“The picture had no flourishes, but she liked its lowness of tone and the atmosphere of summer twilight that pervaded it. It spoke of…

— Henry James

“Along with the yearning that came from some deep part of her, that was selfless and exalted, Thea had a hard kind of cockiness,…

— Willa Cather

“Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Her eyes, full of ancient, sacred wisdom. Her bones, deposits of inherited bravery. She is a proud descendant of strong, courageous women who went…

— Melody Lee

“She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of his soul,…

— George Bernard Shaw

“My wife comes foremost; then the honour'd mould Wherein this trunk was framed, and in her hand The grandchild to her blood. But, out,…

— William Shakespeare

“Florence suspected that there was something profoundly wrong with her, that she had always been different, and that at last she was about to…

— Ian McEwan

“good works gathered in a thousand ages, such as deeds of generosity, or offerings to the blissful ones, a single flash of anger shatters…

— Shantideva

“Yet this little creature, of so mean an origin that she could not write her name, shone with an amiable lustre amid the corruptions…

— Marjorie Bowen