HomeQuotes“Conceit spoils the finest genius.”126 likes“Conceit spoils the finest genius.”— Louisa May Alcott《Little Women》More from Louisa May Alcott“Love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”— Louisa May Alcott《Little Women》“Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”— Louisa May Alcott《Little Women》“I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.”— Louisa May Alcott《Little Women》More from 《Little Women》“Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”— Louisa May Alcott《Little Women》“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”— Louisa May Alcott《Little Women》Dynamic discoveryYou may also like“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》“Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》“Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, “Spare the rod and spoil the child.”— Washington Irving《The Legend of Sleepy Hollow》“His mind relieved from inquietude respecting his Sister, and his Spirits raised by the hope of soon restoring her to freedom, He now had time to give a few moments to love and to Antonia.”— Matthew Gregory Lewis《The Monk》“The old man had loved Undine with exceeding tenderness, and it was doubtful to his mind that the mere disappearance of his beloved child could be properly viewed as her death.”— Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué《Undine》“The answer is, that we must do good to our seeming and real good friends, and evil to our seeming and real evil enemies--good to the good, evil to the evil.”— Plato《The Republic of Plato》“You wrong me, wearied out with thought and grieving As though the whole world's sorrow eat my heart, I come to gaze upon your face believing Its beauty is as ointment to the smart.”— Adela Florence Nicolson《India's Love Lyrics》“But nature itself, she thought, would be no better than a vast blank, if the mind of the observer did not supply it with an animating soul.”— William Godwin《Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman》“The position, as it would appear to a plain person of ordinary common sense, is that a woman who is legally married to one man and is living as the wife of another, is a married woman who is living with a man who is not her husband.”— R. Austin Freeman《Helen Vardon's confession》“Your mother thought that as you and I, in a short time, have become, so to say, friends, and you have some confidence in me, I am in a position to give you good advice—and you would mind what I say.”— Ivan Turgenev《The Torrents of Spring》“DEAR DICK, At what time of life may a man think himself exempted from the necessity of sacrificing his repose to the punctilios of a contemptible world?”— Tobias Smollett《The Expedition of Humphry Clinker》Load more recommendations
“Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”— Louisa May Alcott《Little Women》
“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》
“Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》
“Truth to say, he was a conscientious man, and ever bore in mind the golden maxim, “Spare the rod and spoil the child.”— Washington Irving《The Legend of Sleepy Hollow》
“His mind relieved from inquietude respecting his Sister, and his Spirits raised by the hope of soon restoring her to freedom, He now had time to give a few moments to love and to Antonia.”— Matthew Gregory Lewis《The Monk》
“The old man had loved Undine with exceeding tenderness, and it was doubtful to his mind that the mere disappearance of his beloved child could be properly viewed as her death.”— Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué《Undine》
“The answer is, that we must do good to our seeming and real good friends, and evil to our seeming and real evil enemies--good to the good, evil to the evil.”— Plato《The Republic of Plato》
“You wrong me, wearied out with thought and grieving As though the whole world's sorrow eat my heart, I come to gaze upon your face believing Its beauty is as ointment to the smart.”— Adela Florence Nicolson《India's Love Lyrics》
“But nature itself, she thought, would be no better than a vast blank, if the mind of the observer did not supply it with an animating soul.”— William Godwin《Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman》
“The position, as it would appear to a plain person of ordinary common sense, is that a woman who is legally married to one man and is living as the wife of another, is a married woman who is living with a man who is not her husband.”— R. Austin Freeman《Helen Vardon's confession》
“Your mother thought that as you and I, in a short time, have become, so to say, friends, and you have some confidence in me, I am in a position to give you good advice—and you would mind what I say.”— Ivan Turgenev《The Torrents of Spring》
“DEAR DICK, At what time of life may a man think himself exempted from the necessity of sacrificing his repose to the punctilios of a contemptible world?”— Tobias Smollett《The Expedition of Humphry Clinker》
