Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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William Shakespeare

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)

Conscience | Cunning | Defeat | Devil | Father | Force | Gall | Heart | Heaven | Life | Life | Murder | Oppression | Passion | Play | Power | Property | Revenge | Soul | Spirit | Tears | Weakness | Will | Words | Murder | Guilty |

William Shakespeare

Pleasure will be paid, one time or another.

Revenge |

Emil M. Cioran

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

God | Order | Revenge | God |

Emil M. Cioran

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Baseness | Cunning | Revenge | Think |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

I shouldn’t care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn’t you suffer? I do! Will you forget me - will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say, twenty years hence, “That’s the grave of Catherine Earnshaw. I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I’ve loved many others since - my children are dearer to me than she was, and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her, I shall be sorry that I must leave them!” Will you say so, Heathcliff?

Charity | Death | Giving | Insult | Little | Revenge | Torture | Insult |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again—it is hers yet—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it...

Care | Destroy | Revenge | Time | Will | Trouble | Old |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness. (Mr. Lockwood)

Cruelty | Love | Reason | Revenge | Thinking | Will | Cruelty | Forgive |

Gustave Flaubert

The impressions made on his mind by this kind of reading took such a hold of it that he felt a need within him of reproducing those pictures of bygone days. His ambition was to be, one day, the Walter Scott of France. Deslauriers dreamed of formulating a vast system of philosophy, which might have the most far-reaching applications.

Revenge |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Behind that, there was something else at work, beyond any design of the ring maker. I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought.

Debt | Money | Nations | Revenge | Slavery | Torture |