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)
© 2003 paige