1866 · Skopia

Showing 15 quotes from 1866

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment · 1866

★ 8.1

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast. But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment · 1866

★ 7.3

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Felix Holt, the Radical · 1866

★ 7.0

When reason fails, the devil helps!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment · 1866

★ 4.0

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it... One must have the courage to dare.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment · 1866

★ 4.0

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

Felix Holt, the Radical · 1866

★ 3.8

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

Felix Holt, the Radical · 1866

★ 3.6

Tell me the old, old story Of unseen things above, Of Jesus and his glory, Of Jesus and his love.

Katherine Hankey

Tell Me the Old, Old Story · 1866

★ 3.6

The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crush'd, less quick to spring again.

1866

★ 3.6

I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1866

★ 3.5

I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep; Of what may come hereafter For men that sow and reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1866

★ 3.5

The Puritans, who nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedom, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoying his.

Charles Farrar Browne

1866

★ 3.5

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell.

Philip Henry Sheridan

1866

★ 2.8

A woman can hardly ever choose...she is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.

Felix Holt, the Radical · 1866

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

William E. Gladstone

1866

★ 1.1

1866 · Skopia