“The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 211 of 276
“The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.”
“"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "”
“"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."”
“Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.”
“I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.”
“While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!”
“To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.”
“Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.”
“Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.”
“What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?”
“But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.”
“That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.”
“Who has words at the right moment?”
“I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.”
“It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.”
“Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation?”
“I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.”
“Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.”
“To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.”