WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 9, 2025

A quotation from Shakespeare

JULIET:          Although I joy in thee,
   I have no joy of this contract tonight.
   It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,
   Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
   Ere one can say “It lightens.”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 123ff (2.2.123-127) (1595)

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 6, 2025

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

To be suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes, is tragical enough at best; but when a man has been grudging himself his own life in the meanwhile, and saving up everything for the festival that was never to be, it becomes that hysterically moving sort of tragedy which lies on the confines of farce.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

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Essay (1878-03), "Crabbed Age and Youth," Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37 - Stevenson, Robert Louis | WIST Quotations

To be suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes, is tragical enough at best; but when a man has been grudging himself his own life in the meanwhile, and saving up everything for the festival that was never to be, it becomes that hysterically moving sort of tragedy…

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