“The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.”

“Affectation of candour is common enough; one meets with it everywhere.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

— Mark Twain《Adventures of Huckleberry Finn》

“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》

“Call me Ishmael.”

— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》

“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》

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

— Charles Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》

“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》

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald《The Great Gatsby》

“The man with the book was not reading aloud, and no one spoke; all seemed to be waiting for something to occur; the dead man only was without expectation.”

— Ambrose Bierce《The Damned Thing》