Author Quotes

William Shakespeare

Victor Hugo

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Leo Tolstoy

Franz Kafka

Edgar Allan Poe

Miguel de Cervantes

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

Johannes V. Jensen

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Camilo José Cela

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

Agatha Christie

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Georges Courteline

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

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

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

Jeff Smith (chef)

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

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

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

Adrian Mitchell

Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

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

For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

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

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

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