Quotes by : J. Sheridan Le Fanu

I have often wondered since at my own firmness. In that dreadful interview with my uncle I had felt,....

but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers....

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....

You are afraid to die?'Yes, everyone is.'But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may....

Mademoiselle De Lafontaine – in right of her father, who was a German, assumed to be psychological,....

The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after....

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

She used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and laying her cheek to mine, murmur....

How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain....