Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.
General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
There are just so many ways to talk about masculinity, it feels like one medium can't do it alone.
"Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline"... "It's easy. Incredibly easy."
What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.
I don't really plan ahead very far. I have never known what I'm doing more than a few pages ahead.
It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.
As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.
Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.
I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.'
There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.
Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I had I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.
I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.
The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.
Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.
All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.
My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.
When you fall for the one that owns you, she’ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.
Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn't live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every day.
Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.
It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.
I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me.