Author Quotes

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

L. Sprague de Camp

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

Agatha Christie

I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

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.

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

William Ralph Inge

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

There are times when Science does not satisfy.

Rudyard Kipling

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

William Hamilton Maxwell

Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin showed us that they were our cousins.

George Bernard Shaw

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

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

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

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

Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.

William Shakespeare

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Lady Margaret Sackville

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

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

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.