Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.
When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
L'Ide e seule est e ternelle et ne cessaire. The idea alone is eternal and necessary.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Act on what you love, not from what you fear, and watch how fear fades as love grows.
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.
There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.
..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.
Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?
Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.
The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.
the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.
My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.
Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.
You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.
In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
Warm Bodies ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.
It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.