“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature;”

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“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》

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

— Mark Twain《Adventures of Huckleberry Finn》

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“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》

“It was her first duty, the first duty of every man, woman and child in the nation to see that the fighting-men went off in good heart.”

— Alfred Ollivant《One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex》

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

— Andy Dufresne《The Shawshank Redemption》

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“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》

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“No word for food or water or man--words for good food and bad food, or rain water and sea water, or strong man and weak man--but no names for general classes.”

— Stanley G. Weinbaum《A Martian Odyssey》