Quotes by : J. Sheridan Le Fanu

You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You....

No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to....

But curiosity is a restless and unscrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that....

Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes;....

(...) and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won't look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly....

You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.

You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish.....

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may....

For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor....