Quote by Mark Twain

“But the poor and indigent who earn scarcely enough to keep themselves alive and who also have to pay tribute to the petty officials,…

— José Rizal

“That settles it,” said Mr. Trapwood. “We’re going back to the pension. We’re going to pack. We’re going to be on the Bishop first…

— Eva Ibbotson

“In the year of Christ 1571, at the age of thirty-eight, on the last day of February, anniversary of his birth, Michel de Montaigne,…

— Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592

“No, he would never know his father, who would continue to sleep over there, his face for ever lost in the ashes. There was…

— Albert Camus

“His constant, despairing prayer was to be let alone. By the blue waters and rustling palms of his own mind he was happy and…

— Evelyn Waugh

“Cromwell, suppose you’d been away from England for seven years? If you’d been like a knight in a story, lying under an enchantment? You…

— Hilary Mantel

“And when the Duke of Alva ordered three hundred Citizens to be put to Death together at Antwerp, a Lady who saw the Sight…

— Peter Ackroyd

“and there the stories Of martyrs awed, as Spagnoletto tainted His brush with all the blood of all the sainted.”

— George Gordon Byron

“The multitude of men and women choose the less adventurous way of the comparatively unconscious civic and tribal routines. But these seekers, too, are…

— Joseph Campbell

“Sir, people never wanted me to make it to squire. They won't like it any better if I become a knight. I doubt I'll…

— Tamora Pierce

“He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of…

— Chinua Achebe

“He comes with those in his employ, to watch, gathering evidence and confession. His success speaks of a countryside rife with evil, an intemperate…

— Becky Wright