Jane Austen - Quotes
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. - Jane Austen #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. - Jane Austen #quotes
Jean de La Fontaine - Quotes
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. - Jean de La Fontaine
Albert Einstein - Quotes
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. - Albert Einstein #quotes
John Lennon - Quotes
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. - John Lennon
Meryl Streep - Quotes
I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. - Meryl Streep
Theodor Adorno - Quotes
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. - Theodor Adorno #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. - Jane Austen #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Ken Follett - Quotes
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era. - Ken Follett
Mark Twain - Quotes
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. - Mark Twain
Meryl Streep - Quotes
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. - Meryl Streep #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. - Mark Twain #quotes
Anne Frank - Quotes
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank
Michael J. Fox - Quotes
Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was. - Michael J. Fox #quotes
Oscar Wilde - Quotes
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain - Quotes
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. - Mark Twain
John Stuart Mill - Quotes
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. -John Stuart Mill #quotes
Theodor Adorno - Quotes
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. - Theodor Adorno #quotes
Oscar Wilde - Quotes
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. - Oscar Wilde
Charles Dickens - Quotes
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. - Jane Austen #quotes
Albert Einstein - Quotes
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein #quotes
Ken Follett - Quotes
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. - Ken Follett
John Lennon - Quotes
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty. - John Lennon
Socrates - Quotes
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. - Socrates #quotes
Meryl Streep - Quotes
Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me. - Meryl Streep #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. - Charles Dickens
Rita Rudner - Quotes
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. - Rita Rudner #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. - Jane Austen #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. - Mark Twain
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Quotes
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. - F. Scott Fitzgerald #quotes
Michael J. Fox - Quotes
I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made. - Michael J. Fox #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. - Jane Austen
Oscar Wilde - Quotes
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. - Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain - Quotes
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. - Mark Twain
Jane Austen - Quotes
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. - Jane Austen
Meryl Streep - Quotes
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. - Meryl Streep
Albert Einstein - Quotes
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. - Albert Einstein #quotes
Meryl Streep - Quotes
I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work. - Meryl Streep #quotes
Meryl Streep - Quotes
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. - Meryl Streep
Mark Twain - Quotes
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. - Jane Austen
William Shakespeare - Quotes
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. - William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens - Quotes
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Erma Bombeck - Quotes
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments. - Erma Bombeck #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. - Jane Austen #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain
William Shakespeare - Quotes
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. - William Shakespeare #quotes
Socrates - Quotes
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. - Socrates
Steve Allen - Quotes
If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war. - Steve Allen #quotes
Socrates - Quotes
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. - Socrates #quotes
Eminem - Quotes
I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. - Eminem
Charles Dickens - Quotes
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Oscar Wilde - Quotes
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. - Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare - Quotes
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare
Jane Austen - Quotes
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. - Jane Austen #quotes
Oscar Wilde - Quotes
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. - Oscar Wilde
Charles Dickens - Quotes
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. - Mark Twain #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. - Jane Austen #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. - Mark Twain
Marilyn Monroe - Quotes
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them. - Marilyn Monroe #quotes
Albert Einstein - Quotes
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. - Mark Twain #quotes
Oscar Wilde - Quotes
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. - Oscar Wilde
Jane Austen - Quotes
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. - Jane Austen
Ken Follett - Quotes
The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. - Ken Follett
Jane Austen - Quotes
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. - Jane Austen #quotes
Ken Follett - Quotes
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century. - Ken Follett #quotes
William Shakespeare - Quotes
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. - William Shakespeare #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. - Jane Austen #quotes
Jean de La Fontaine - Quotes
One often has need of one, inferior to himself. - Jean de La Fontaine #quotes
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Quotes
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ken Follett - Quotes
An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit. - Ken Follett
William Shakespeare - Quotes
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. - William Shakespeare #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. - Mark Twain #quotes
Marilyn Monroe - Quotes
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere. - Marilyn Monroe #quotes
Theodor Adorno - Quotes
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. - Theodor Adorno #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. - Jane Austen
William Shakespeare - Quotes
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. - William Shakespeare #quotes
Cameron Diaz - Quotes
I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself. - Cameron Diaz #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Oscar Wilde - Quotes
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. - Oscar Wilde
Thomas Jefferson - Quotes
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. - Thomas Jefferson #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Oscar Wilde - Quotes
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. - Oscar Wilde
Jean de La Fontaine - Quotes
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. - Jean de La Fontaine #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? - Jane Austen #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Mark Twain #quotes
Rita Rudner - Quotes
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. - Rita Rudner #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - Jane Austen
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