Wren > Wren's Quotes

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“A great nose may be an index
Of a great soul”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
― Mary Shelley