I had seen that the door was unlocked, and now escape was before me.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Je n'ai point d'ennemis que ceux de l'état —I have no enemies whatever but those of the state.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

ATHENIAN: Then our tyrant must have this as well as the other qualities, if the state is to acquire in the best manner and in the shortest time the form of government which is most conducive to happiness; for there neither is nor ever will be a better or speedier way of establishing a polity than by a tyranny.
— from Laws by Plato

Wolf does not eat wolf, but man will readily devour man.” “Come, friend, don’t say that; a wolf eats wolf.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Nor ever will be," says my Lady.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This, I suppose, will be stomached by the stoical Seneca, who pretends that the only emblem of wisdom is the man without passion; whereas the supposing any person to be so, is perfectly to unman him, or else transforming him into some fabulous deity that never was, nor ever will be; nay, to speak more plain, it is but the making him a mere statue, immoveable, senseless, and altogether inactive.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

He bought no earth worms because he was sure of finding them everywhere; but he laid in a provision of sand worms.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Borgen thut nur einmal wohl —Borrowing does well only once.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

'How my new edition will be received I know not; the subscription has not been very successful.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

" Finally, the King is shewn on an upper balcony, by torchlight, with a huge tricolor in his hat: 'And all the "people," says Weber, grasped one another's hands;—thinking now surely the New Era was born.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Now, even while Brenda was reasoning in this foolish fashion—yet it could hardly be called reasoning—she did not fully face the question as to whether she had not done wrong rather than Arthur.
— from Brenda's Bargain: A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed

But if we kill them, others, who have no experience, will be set to slaughter us, and will by their bungling inflict great sufferings upon us.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

The Doctor's Family Chronicles of Carlingford THE DOCTOR'S FAMILY BY MRS OLIPHANT NEW EDITION WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON CONTENTS THE DOCTOR'S FAMILY CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II.
— from The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

He had not enough warm blood back of that large gray face to rejoice when the mercury dropped in an hour, as it often did, from 88 or 90 degrees to 56 or 60 degrees.
— from Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Slason Thompson

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted, is God with us.
— from The Miraculous Conception Or, The Divinity of Jesus Christ Considered as the Foundation of the Christian Religion by Peter Annet

"The monthly supply above detailed I should not expect would be required for more than two months."
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Ian Hamilton

At the end of the second thirty minutes, and seeing that no effort was being made to get the contract, I remarked that perhaps it might be just as well for me to call on the clerk of the district court while waiting.
— from Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York by Anonymous

We’ll make for the fellow to port and trust to luck that we get near enough without being spotted.”
— from The Boy Allies in the Baltic; Or, Through Fields of Ice to Aid the Czar by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

And at the same time the Navy editorial writers brought up the old issue of American arms and ammunition to further embitter the people.
— from Germany, The Next Republic? by Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman