Author Quotes

William Shakespeare

Victor Hugo

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Leo Tolstoy

Franz Kafka

Edgar Allan Poe

Miguel de Cervantes

In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Agatha Christie

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholem Aleichem

I do not like to sleep when your body lies against mine at night, for I think of death which comes so quickly to put us thoroughly to sleep.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

William Ralph Inge

Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.

William Shakespeare

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

Antonio Porchia

I sing of arms and of a man: his fate
had made him fugitive; he was the first
to journey from the coasts of Troy as far
as Italy and the Lavinian shores
Across the lands and waters he was battered
beneath the violence of the high ones for
the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Mickey Spillane

Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

G. K. Chesterton

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

James Norman Hall

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

György Konrád

In the house, and on the street, how many, many feet you meet.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you are going away.

Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now

Emily Dickinson

There are times when Science does not satisfy.

Rudyard Kipling

Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863.

William Faulkner

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Adrian Mitchell