"Go away from here to our old manor house; but you had better bite your tongue off than spread any lies among the people.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

You are at first hand all that's faire and right, And others good reflects but backe your light.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

‘He was a brute to you, Traddles,’ said I, indignantly; for his good humour made me feel as if I had seen him beaten but yesterday.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Polygamy is a recent feature in the Mormon religion, and was added by Brigham Young after Joseph Smith’s death.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

What an age it will be before you read these lines, the weak expressions of the fevered soul in which you reign.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

I will make you very rich if you promise me that you will see the flesh slide off the beggar's bones before you feed him, and let the debtor die in jail before you pay his debt.”
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

You have not seen it before, but you resent the stale thing as an affront.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

I protest to you, a man I have been: a man I may be, by your sweet bounty.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

As much as the public affairs are bettered by your exploit, so much are your own the worse, and the better you behave yourself in it, ‘tis so much the worse for yourself; and it will be no new thing, nor, peradventure, without some colour of justice, if the same person ruin you who set you on work.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The wings of the rushing wind seem to be bearing you onward, you know not where.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

But in the oft-occurring cases in which "he does not see the bird fall," it is obvious—particularly when he happens to be at the extremity of his beat,—that you will far more quickly place him where you wish, if you make him, at first, run up to you, and then advance from you, straight to the bird, by your forward signal— 190 .
— from The Dog by W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson

Clemens said: "Mr. Beard, I do not want to subject you to any undue suffering, but I wish you would read the book before you make the pictures."
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 by Albert Bigelow Paine

The next thing that will happen will be that you will be hanged for your stupidity, not by Canada nor by the State of New York, but by your general, who will curse your memory ever after.
— from In the Midst of Alarms by Robert Barr

And so 't will ever be, till man Knows more of Goodness, Truth, And Beauty—more of nature's plan, And Love that brings back youth To hearts that have grown frail and old By groping in the dark With blinded eyes; their idol, Gold, And Gain, their Pleasure-bark!
— from Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics by Charles Sangster

You guard like men, 'tis well; but, by your leave, I am an officer of state and come To speak with Coriolanus.
— from The Tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

If I have not given way to the luxury of being beloved by you, it is because your generous self-abandonment has awakened within a heart too selfish to others a real love for yourself.”
— from Godolphin, Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The mob in the street may be roused by working on elemental passions—so roused it will kill or burn, but you cannot excite in it enthusiasm for Dante’s Inferno, or induce it to contribute money or labor toward the preparation of a new annotated edition.
— from A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects by Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore) Bostwick

"But behave yourself; respect the future Madame Crevel.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

“That Bishop believed you were dead; he opened the packet, and deemed it his duty to entrust it to the Vicar of Christ.
— from The Saint by Antonio Fogazzaro