Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--
Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.
In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.
They hate you because you act like you're better than they are
Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.
There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.
That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.
Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue
I'm going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly.
I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.
The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.
Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.
If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
Cause nothing said lovin' like a shitload of motion detectors.
V?" "What?" "I will die rather than hurt you." ~Vutch moments~
The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?
Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.
We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.