Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!
Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!
When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!
When the winter comes, be very happy; because the spring comes only if the winter comes!
You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!
Every house takes its light from the happiness inside the house! No happiness, no light!
You blame me for this, don't you?" he says. "I don't need to. You're doing a better job.
The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.
There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.
Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it
Well Kerry, you're 19 and you're a lot older than a lot of people younger than yourself.
It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.
Every artist who drew Batman after creator Bob Kane was a better artist than Kane [...].
I think being negative is being positive. You can't improve without stating the problem.
I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.
But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)
Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!
It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
Come to the stable. Come to where the horses are, and the sweet, grainy, pungent smells.
One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.
I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.
I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.
Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.