Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.
You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.
I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.
To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions
We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow
When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.
The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister
Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.
Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.
In Mississippi, black and white live cheek by jowl, day in and day out.
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
While beer brings gladness, don't forget That water only makes you wet!
When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.
Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.
I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.
Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.
If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.