English 2025 Final: Quotes
"...great physical strength; morbidly excitable, periods of gloom ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out. I presume that the sanguine temperament itself and the disturbing influence end in a mentally-accomplished finish;"
Dracula by Bram Stoker
";but I did not fear to go to sleep again, although the boughs or bats or something flapped almost angrily against the window-panes."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"All is dark. I hear lapping water, level with me, and some creaking as of wood on wood."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"I began to fear as I wrote in this book that I was getting too diffuse; but now I am glad that I went into detail from the frist, for there is something so strange about this place and all in it that I cannot but feel uneasy."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to se how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!"
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"Now God be thanked that all has not been in vain! See! the snow is not more stainless than her forehead!"
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East"
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"There was undoubtedly something, long and black, bending over the half-reclining white figure."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the Judgement Day."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"We have learnt something-much! Notwithstanding his brave words, he fear us; he fear time; he fear want! For if not, why he hurry so?"
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"You know now, and they know in part already, and will now in full before long, what it is to cross my path."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!"
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land some broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, - you'd forget me.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?"
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.'
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"Girls! Pentagram of Death!"
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
"He was beyond comparison the most pleasant man; he certainly admired her, and his situation in life was most eligible; but, to counterbalance these advantages, Mr. Darcy had a considerably larger head, and thus, more brains to feast upon."
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
"She turned, blade at the ready, and was met with the regrettable visage of three unmentionables, their arms outstretched and mouths agape."
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
"The wedding took place, and no one other than Elizabeth seemed to suspect the bride's condition"
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. --Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"I might as well enquire" replied she, "why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason and even against your character?"
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"She has nothing in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker. I shall never forget her appearance this morning. She really looked almost wild."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"When I consider," she added in a yet more agitated voice, "that I might have prevented it!-I who knew what he was. Had I but explained some part of it-only some part of what I learnt, to my own family!"
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"You are too hasty, Sir," she cried. "You forget that I have made no answer. Let me do it without farther loss of time. Accept my thanks for the compliment you are paying me. I am very sensible of the honour of your proposals, but it is impossible for me to do otherwise than decline them."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"You have no compassion for my poor nerves"
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"Forgive me. I was very rude this afternoon." That was all. No signature, and no beginning. But my name was on the envelope, and spelt correctly, an unusual thing."
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
"He looks ill doesn't he? They say he can't get over his wife's death..."
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
"I am very different from that self who drove to Manderley for the first time, hopeful and eager, handicapped by a rather desperate gaucherie and filled with an intense desire to please."
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
"The rhododendrons stood fifty feet high, twisted and entwined with bracken, and they had entered into alien marriage with a host of nameless shrubs, poor, bastard things that clung about their roots as though conscious of their spurious origin."
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
