Quote by Walter Scott

“the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable.”

— Gail Godwin

“Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply…

— Christie Golden

“But above all he must refrain from seizing the property of others, because a man is quicker to forget the death of his father…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured.…

— Charles Dickens

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more hideous crimes have been committed in the…

— C.P. Snow

“Buried feelings of anger and vengeance washed over him as he thought back to the time he discovered who his real father was and…

— Angel Sefer

“One extraordinary thing happened as a result of the fear caused by your people, and that was that old feuds and envies disappeared. Those…

— Graciela Limón

“These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered…

— Plutarch

“For at all times we must so serve Him with the good things He has given us, that he may not, as an angry…

— Saint Benedict of Nursia

“And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it…

— George Orwell

“There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic, yet high,…

— George MacDonald

“It was enough to marvel at the end of a cycle of reprisals. How seldom it happened, in a long-standing war of hatred, that…

— Laini Taylor