Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
What does art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions.
It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.
I decided then and there I was never going to have kids.
Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.
I do love you. I mean, love has nothing to do with this.
Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.
because everybody lies. It's part of living in society .
He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.
If it came down to that, I'd protect you in a heartbeat.
You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.
True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.
Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain
I always have the impression that I write the same book.
Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.
If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!
If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.
I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.
When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.
No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.
It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job.
Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.
Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self.
...extraordinarily beautiful, and slightly out of focus.