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Thereby hangs a tale.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1591), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by GrumioIn context
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune⁠—the ally of patient Time⁠—that holds an even and scrupulous balance.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Lord Jim (1900), Chapter 34In context
You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930A Study in Scarlet (1887), Part I, Chapter IIn context
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891–1892), A Scandal in BohemiaIn context
Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
William Faulkner1897–1962The Sound and the Fury (1929), April Seventh, 1928 (1 of 3)In context
I won’t play the sap for you.
Dashiell Hammett1894–1961The Maltese Falcon (1930), Chapter 20In context
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done⁠—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Frances Hodgson Burnett1849–1924The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Change
- Ideas
Fortune befriends the bold.
Virgil70–19 BCThe Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XIn context
- Courage
- Luck
I’m not myself⁠—I’m somebody else⁠—that’s me yonder-no⁠—that’s somebody else, got into my shoes⁠—I was myself last night, but I fell asleep on the mountain, and they’ve changed my gun, and everything’s changed, and I’m changed, and I can’t tell what’s my name, or who I am!
Washington Irving1783–1859Rip Van Winkle (1819)In context
- Change
The disease had sharpened my senses⁠—not destroyed⁠—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)In context
My brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder⁠—there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters⁠—and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the “House of Usher.”
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)In context
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Waste Land (1922), VIn context
If only I could live the rest of my life in some new way! If I could only wake some still, bright morning and feel that life had begun again; that the past was forgotten and had vanished like smoke.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act IV, spoken by VoitskiIn context
- Change
- Life & Death
Great treasure halls hath Zeus in heaven,
From whence to man strange dooms be given,
Past hope or fear.
And the end men looked for cometh not,
And a path is there where no man thought:
So hath it fallen here.
Euripides481–407 BCMedea (431 BC), Part 2, spoken by ChorusIn context
- God
- Luck
Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down thy hair.
Brothers GrimmGrimms’ Fairy Tales (1812–1815), RapunzelIn context