“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”

“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 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》

“A woman with so passionate a nature as hers, married against her will to a man she could never love, and meeting once more the man whom she loved, the man who really loved her, must find such friendship a dangerous pitfall.”

— Grant Allen《Linnet》

“In any case such a monster must of necessity be in our scheme of things an anomaly and an intruder, whose extirpation forms a primary duty with every man not an enemy to the world's life, health, and sanity.”

— H. P. Lovecraft《The Shunned House》

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

— Andy Dufresne《The Shawshank Redemption》

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

— Mark Twain《Adventures of Huckleberry Finn》

“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》

“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“It is now becoming obscured by time; and thousands, who know that Montcalm died like a hero on the plains of Abraham, have yet to learn how much he was deficient in that moral courage without which no man can be truly great.”

— James Fenimore Cooper《The Last of the Mohicans》

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

— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》