When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.
Anne Brontë
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GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
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GEORGE ORWELL What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer pos...
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PROVERB To me, there is no room for the cynical politics of manufactured anger and false conviction.
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DADA BHAGWAN When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.
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G. ADAM STANISLAV We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.
MONTY PYTHON There is nothing to worry about at the moment. We are keeping a vigil and there is no rise in the se...
KAPIL SIBAL I don't like big purses, it's too much like a bag lady. I'm all about keeping my purse little.
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HOWARD WILKINSON No good sir, I'm not trying to steal your lady. Your lady is trying to steal my heart.
JEREMY CHEATWOOD Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
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GARRY MARSHALL If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
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OLASOT I humbly apologise for reality Television.
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LYNDA SMITH When we look at the way we were able to increase transactions while keeping head count flat or going...
MARK PASDON Criticism of one’s appearance hurts, no matter what.
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OTTO FRANK When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his
GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob hi...
DADA BHAGWAN Always forgive, for it is symbol of strength and never apologise, for it is a symbol of weakness.
VIKRANT PARSAI When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.
MOHSIN HAMID Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.
ECKHART TOLLE To tell an Elder the painful truth and later apologise, is same flogging a child and telling him not...
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GEORGE ORWELL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Quite alone both as a novel and as a piece of terror-literature stands the famous Wuthering Heights ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The No. 1 goal of everyone who was there was keeping prices stable.
EDWARD GRAMLICH Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world.
MILAN KUNDERA When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.
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DAN SIMMONS Anytime there is frustration, it lights a fuse for anger.
EPHREM FERNANDEZ When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
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SUE BIRD I had a lot of anger after 13 years. That anger isn't there.
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ROMOLA GARAI When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.
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Mal: Going ...
KYLIE SCOTT Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
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EMILY BRONTë Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reader, I married him.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."
"I ask why? I must have a reason. In all re...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
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EMILY BRONTë It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTë Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
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EMILY BRONTë Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
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EMILY BRONTë I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in the...
EMILY BRONTë I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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EMILY BRONTë If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I cou...
EMILY BRONTë No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The word book acted as a transient stimulus
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. T...
EMILY BRONTë Cheerfulness, it would appear,
is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
of t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but ...
EMILY BRONTë He comes with western winds, with evening's
wandering airs,
With that clear dusk of heave...
EMILY BRONTë But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,
And even Despair was powerless to destroy, EMILY BRONTë How clear she shines ! How quietly
I lie beneath her guardian light;
While heaven and ear...
EMILY BRONTë What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory and more grief than I can tell:
EMILY BRONTë Hope Was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would te...
EMILY BRONTë Evening Solace
The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sea...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain
And dreary winds forebodin...
EMILY BRONTë Riches I hold in light esteem,
And love I laugh to scorn,
And lust of fame was but a dream...
EMILY BRONTë So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself th...
EMILY BRONTë The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I'm tired, tired of being enclosed ...
EMILY BRONTë I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.
EMILY BRONTë Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I mu...
EMILY BRONTë My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter ...
EMILY BRONTë