“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

“Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“To define is to limit.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.”

— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》

“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》

“I thought of Scudder, of the thousand friends I had lost, of the great seas of blood and the mountains of sorrow this man and his like had made for the world.”

— John Buchan《Mr. Standfast》

“They're coming to get you, Barbra.”

— Johnny《Night of the Living Dead》

“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》

“The ghosts are moving tonight, restless, hungry.”

— Frederick Loren《House on Haunted Hill》

“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”

— Herman Melville《Moby-Dick》

“Well, who but a Nazi would deny that Karl Marx was a German because he was a Jew?”

— Mr. Wilson《The Stranger》