Quotes. Quotes of the literary or celebrity kind.


Bliss like thine is bought by years
Dark with torment and with tears.
~ Emily Bronte (Sleep Not)

I share no man’s opinions; I have my own. ~ Ivan Sergeyvich Turgenev

Agonies are one of my changes of garments. ~ Walt Whitman

Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love. ~ Lewis Wallace

But sometimes a woman’s love of being loved gets the better of her conscience. ~ Thomas Hardy (Jude the Obscure)

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. ~ George Meredith

It was not Death, for I stood up,
And all the Dead, lie down
~ Emily Dickinson

Off with her head! ~ Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland, of course)

I can’t help it. I was born sneering. ~ Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (The Mikado)

Friends are born, not made. ~ Henry Brooks Adams

Cynic, n. a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. ~ Ambrose Bierce (The Devil’s Dictionary)

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
~ Stephen Crane

You have deliberately tasted two worms and you can leave Oxford by the next town drain. ~ William Spooner, dismissing a student

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. ~ Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum. ~ Richard Rowland

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ~ Sir James Dewar

Jealousy feeds on suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

We pardon to the extent that we love. ~Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucaud

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. ~Blaise Pascal

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~Alexander Pope

I want to seize fate by the throat . ~Beethoven

The female of the species is more deadly than the male. ~Kipling

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered. ~ David Lawrence (Sons and Lovers)

I can be pushed just so far. ~ Harry Leon Wilson (Ruggles of Red Gap)

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. ~ Sir Max Beerbohm

The tragedy of love is indifference. ~ William Somerset Maugham

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. ~ Sherwood Anderson

As long as you know that most men are like children you know everything. ~ Coco [Gabrielle] Chanel

I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day. ~ Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind)


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