Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.
When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.
Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.
That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.
That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?
The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys.
I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.
That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.
What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.
She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.
She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.
I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.
I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.
Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.
The world can be a lot better than we settle for. All you have to do is ask.
Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.
If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.
I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.
Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen.
I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.
I feel as though there's a lot invested in my background in being an outsider.
Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.
Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.