But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.
How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.
Un país gana más con un año de paz que con diez de guerra.
Vale la pena luchar por la libertad; vale la pena pagar un alto precio por ella, porque morir por la libertad es dejar esta vida en un derroche de gloria que destruye nuestras debilidades del pasado y...
I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.
His lips. I fear, Mama, that I am not. But I am innocent in this case.
And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.
Sisters and brothers should never quarrel; they must always stand together against the rest of the world if need be.
Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.
All greatness must first take its shape in dreams.
Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.
When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.
Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little more subtlety, and it had taken her two years of doubts and nightmares to realize this. Let him wan...
In Spain to share a pleasure is a good thing because in sharing what is good one gives something worth having. To share one’s sorrow is to beg that one’s burden shall be partly carried by another. Spa...
I no longer fight, I accept.
Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if it were not for the undignified manner of getting them.
He had been so friendly, and he had shown clearly that he did not think me in the least stupid--or, if he did, he liked it.
Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims out of faints that the pain might start again....
He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety.
Yet a simple ceremony in an English church, with no jewels, no brilliant company, no crown, could have made her the happiest woman in the world, providing the right man had shared that ceremony with h...
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