Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.
Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.
Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)
Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.
...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.
She dreamed of leaving, but she had too little exposure to the world to imagine where to go.
It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.
Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.
Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.
Where is Barbie?" The female shifter snickered and choked it off. "Is there a stripper pole?
Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.
Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts.
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.
The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.
Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.
How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .
Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb.
You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.
V tired to imagine giving up his proclivities. "My monster needs to get out. Especially now.
Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.
There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art