Quotes · Skopia

33 quotes

Wuthering Heights · 1847

★ 7.1

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness: the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

David Whyte

2020

★ 5.0

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones's Diary · 1996

★ 4.4

Novel · Coming of age story

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.9

Novel · Coming of age story

Reader, I married him.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.9

Novel

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free.

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights · 1847

★ 3.9

Novel

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights · 1847

★ 3.9

Novel · Coming of age story

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.8

Novel · Coming of age story

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.8

Novel · Coming of age story

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.8

Novel

Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights · 1847

★ 3.8

Novel · Coming of age story

My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.7

Novel · Coming of age story

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1848

★ 3.7

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

1750

★ 3.6

Essay

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

1750

★ 3.6

Newspaper

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Asquith

1923

★ 3.5

Magazine

It is only that which cannot be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music.

Frederick Delius

1920

★ 3.5

Newspaper

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Fred Hoyle

1979

★ 3.5

Essay

The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?

J.B. Priestley

1928

★ 3.4

Play · Drama (play) · Drama

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.

J.B. Priestley

1945

★ 3.4

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