All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.

William Shakespeare · The source reads: “Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh! oh! oh!”

Young in limbs, in judgment old.

William Shakespeare · The Merchant of Venice (1596–1597), II, vii

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

William Shakespeare · The Taming of the Shrew (1593–1594), IV, ii

Thought is free.

William Shakespeare · The Tempest (1611–1612), III, ii

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Remarks are not literature.

Gertrude Stein · The source reads: “Remarks are not literature [said to Hemingway].” · The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), said to Hemingway

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

L. P. Hartley · The first sentence of The Go-Between.

The sea is at its best at London, near midnight, when you are within the arms of a capacious chair, before a glowing fire, selecting phases of the voyages you will never make.

H. M. Tomlinson · The Sea and the Jungle (1912)

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“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”

“Young in limbs, in judgment old.”

“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.”

“Thought is free.”

“Remarks are not literature.”

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

“The sea is at its best at London, near midnight, when you are within the arms of a capacious chair, before a glowing fire, selecting phases of the voyages you will never make.”