“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”

“Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“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》

“But Friendship is a noble thing-- Of Friendship it is good to sing, For truly when a man shall end, He lives in memory of his friend Who doth his better part recall And of his faults make funeral!”

— Arthur Stringer《The Prairie Wife》

“He is to be pitied, to tell the truth, in his coming into the world as a king, for he is but a man--and having to waste himself on a pack of nonsense instead of sticking to our art, in which he makes good way.”

— Alexandre Dumas《The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty》

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines.”

— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

— Andy Dufresne《The Shawshank Redemption》

“But when these sort of men are so unwelcome to others, as that the very sight of them is thought ominous, I yet make them highly in love with themselves, and fond admirers of their own happiness.”

— Erasmus《In Praise of Folly》

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“The moment when a woman realises that she has nothing to live for—neither love, duty, purpose nor hope—holds for her the bitterness of death.”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery《The Blue Castle》

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”

— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》