“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”– Jane Austen Related Quotes “Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.”– William Shakespeare “Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”– Robert Louis Stevenson “Every test, every trial, every heartache that’s been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.”– Charles Stanley