Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.
The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State
You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You’d make a fortune.
My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.
Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.
You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.
I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.
I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.
Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.
You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore." "Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen.
It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.
Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back
You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.
When a woman speaks to a man about the love she feels for another man, she is not liked.
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.
True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.
Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
How am I supposed to move forward in life when everything important to me is motionless?
That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.
I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.
Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.
Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.
I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.
How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?