Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.
There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.
Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.
Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.
I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.
There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
Remember, whatever the price...I'll beat it! I like living! Tyrion Lannister
She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.
I have a hole where my heart should be, she thought, and nowhere else to go.
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.
Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.
Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.
Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.
A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.
For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.
A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.
First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.
I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.
A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.
I could have fixed almost everything else, but death defeated me every time.
Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.
Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.