History Quote by George Eliot

“Too high for common selfishness, he could At times resign his own for others’ good, But not in pity, not because he ought, But…

— Lord Byron

“Though he was inquiring into himself as closely as he could, he never even told himself that he had been dishonest. Fraud and dishonesty…

— Anthony Trollope

“His was the coiled, urgent restlessness of a person who believed that fate had mistakenly allotted him a place below his true destiny.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with maximum of privation. If the absolutely pure, uncalculating,…

— Joseph Conrad

“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for…

— Saul Bellow

“He had always prided himself on his ability to bargain, to bluff, to contain his ever-aching heart within the folds of his robes where…

— V.S. Carnes

“The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty…

— Jane Austen

“When he thought of all he’d seen, done and experienced in his life, all he’d gained, lost, desired and agonized over, he found it…

— D.E. Sievers

“It came over him now that the unexpected favours of fortune, no matter how dazzling, do not mean very much to us. They may…

— Willa Cather

“Everything now had been taken from him, his striving after goodness, his hopes, his pride, even that human revenge upon fate--to destroy his own…

— Tanith Lee

“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making…

— Lawrence Sterne