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Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Jane Austen1775–1817Sense and Sensibility (1811), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Debate
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen1775–1817Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 14In context
- Clever Jabs
- Reading
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen1775–1817Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 14In context
- Politics
The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Clever Jabs
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter XIXIn context
- Youth
“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, “the law is a ass⁠—a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience⁠—by experience.”
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter LIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Laws
It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Marriage
The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter XXXIXIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Laws
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XXIXIn context
- Sleep
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), NoticeIn context
- Writing
I don’t take no stock in dead people.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter IIn context
- Life & Death
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain’t sleepy⁠—if you are anywheres where it won’t do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter IIIn context
I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don’t reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don’t take no stock in mathematics, anyway.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter IVIn context
- Education
Pilgrim’s Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn’t say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Reading
There warn’t anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn’t any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it’s cool. If you notice, most folks don’t go to church only when they’ve got to; but a hog is different.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XVIIIIn context
- Religion