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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.
I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.
I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.
She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.
Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.
but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.
All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired
So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.
There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game
I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams
...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.
He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.
sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy
I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.
He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.
Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.
Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.
That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.
This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.
I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.
I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.