Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.
To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!
Who has enough credit in this world to pay for his mistakes?
I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.
I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.
I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.
It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.
Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.
Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.
Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.
Life disappoints. Everybody knows that. But must it horrify?
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.
Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.