Quotes from books that start with S

S for Sunday!

This Sunday I will be posting my favorite books and quotes. The letter of the day is S. It is in response to a 30 day month long challenge - A to Z Challenge.

Let me share the first book with you all.

This will be fourth feature of Jane Austen after Emma, Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice.

Yes, the book is Sense and Sensibility.

Here are some beautiful quotes from this wonderful book.

1. To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

2. There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

3. I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

4. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

5. Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

6. It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...

7. When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

8. She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

9. A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

10. Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.

11. Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

12. When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.

Which quote from this collection did you like the most? Do you have any other favorite quote? Please do share your views in comments.

Now, let us explore another book.

This book is Sita: Warrior of Mithila. 
It is second book in Ram Chandra Series. 
This is second trilogy by the author Amish Tripathi after the Shiva Trilogy (which start with the book Immortals of Meluha)

Let me share some quotes from this book.

1. Birth is completely unimportant. It is just a means of entry into this world of action, into this karmabhoomi. Karma is all that matters.

2. When logic fails, faith can serve a purpose.

3. The city enjoys the moon and the night. The jungle always welcomes the sun.

4. Not everyone has the spirit to keep their character strong when their stomachs are empty.

5. The worst enemy a man can ever have is the one who was once his best friend.

6. Often the poor have more nobility in them than the actual nobility.

7. Running away is never the solution. Confront your problems. Manage them. That is the way of the warrior.

8. The differences in society should be determined by merit. That's all. Not birth.

9. You must use your heart to decide the destination, but use your head to plot the journey.

10. Grief overwhelms you when you are alone. But when you find your soulmate, you can handle anything.

11. Many people are not wise enough to count life’s blessings. They keep focusing instead on what the world has denied them.

12. Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.


I am in love with powerful women characters in these books.

I hope you will like quotes from both the books. Do share your favorite books that start with S.
Happy Sunday everyone.