“There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort” – Emma (Jane Austen) Last week my mother and I took a trip to the lovely Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, Hampshire. Jane spent the last eight years of her life at Chawton and it was the house in which she wrote and revised […]
“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?“ Not only is Les Miserables a beautiful and powerful book, but Victor Hugo himself was a truly inspirational man. Some of the best quotes from Les Miserables sum up his philosophies. “We may be indifferent to […]
”Fortune sides with him who dares” – Virgil
“A person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid” — Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey, 1818)
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster” – Isaac Asimov
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” (Aristotle, 384 – 322 BC)
“It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.” (Wolfgang Amadeus […]
In keeping with the previous post, I thought I would pick a line from my favourite Shakespeare play for Quote of the Week this week: “Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man’s son doth know.“ Twelfth Night (II, iii, 44-45) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.“ King James I/VI of England, Ireland & Scotland (1566-1625) on smoking tobacco.
“Unless schoolchildren can be won to history their imagination will be held hostage in the cage of eternal now: the flickering instant that’s gone as soon as it arrives.” (Simon Schama)
