Quotes Flashcards
“I offer the real Americans my consolations that they should be compelled to do that which is against their principles.”
Mrs. Spring Fragrance
“If you were a scholar you would have no time to read American poetry and American newspapers.”
The Inferior Woman
“Sooner would I, O heart of my heart, that the light of thine eyes were also quenched, than that thou shouldst be contaminated with the wisdom of the new.”
The Wisdom of the New
“Pan, don’t you see that you have got to decide what you will be—Chinese or white? You cannot be both.”
It’s Wavering Image
“‘Oh!’ I cried, ‘I am a narrow-minded woman. All I care for is my husband to love me and be kind to me, for life to be pleasant and easy, and to be able to help a wee bit the poor and sick around me.”
The Story of the one White Woman Who Married a Chinese
“The American people think higher. If only more of them lived up to what they thought, the Chinese would not be so confused in trying to follow their leadership.”
Her Chinese Husband
“When a bird is about to die, its notes are sad.”
The Americanizing of Pau Tsu
“There cannot be any law that would keep a child from its mother!”
In the Land of the Free
“Don’t believe a word they say! Their words are sweet, but, my child, their deeds are bitter.”
American Indian Stories : Impressions of an Indian Childhood
“The little taste of victory did not satisfy a hunger in my heart.”
The School Days of an Indian Girl
“Wearing a foreigner’s dress, I walked, a stranger, into my father’s village.”
The Soft-Hearted Sioux
“Let the father of the dead man choose the mode of torture or taking of life.”
The Trial Path
“I am a Dakota woman!”
A Warriors Daughter
I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.
The Fall of the House of Usher
To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave.
The Fall of the House of Usher
We existed within ourselves alone.
The Murder in Rue Morgue
There is no method in their proceedings, beyond the method of the moment
The Murder in Rue Morgue
“True Christian love is of an enlarged, disinterested nature. It loves all who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, without regard to colour or condition.”
Clotel
“Let us not deceive ourselves into the idea that slavery is right, because it is profitable to us.”
Clotel
“[T]he kindness meted out to blacks would be unkindness if given to whites.”
Clotel
“She saw that money conferred power: money and power, therefore, she resolved to have, not to be used for herself alone, but for those whom loved more than self.”
Little Women
“Nothing more, except that I don’t believe I shall ever marry. I’m happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
Little Women
“Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!”
Little Women
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume.”
Song of Myself
