Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm in love," he said hoarsely. "With someone else. That's why." Qhuinn (Lover Unleashed)
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.
Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.
You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.
You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.
A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.
I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
So she searches for light, only to realize it's in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.
Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.
No. I just never wanted to throw them away. Even if they were broken. I still loved them.
Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.
Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.
I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.
My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.
It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.
Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
The first draft often is really fast, and I'd be terribly ashamed if anybody ever saw it.
Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.
I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.
Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.
Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.