Favourites-Quotes

“There is no knowledge that is not power.”

“It is far better to be feared than loved.”

“Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.”

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."

“Tell me what blessings I have here alive, that I should fear to die.”

“Always tell what you feel and do what you think. Nobody would remember you if you keep your thoughts secret. Force yourself to express them.”

"It is also possible that a knob of coal placed upon the fire will not burn."

“Dismiss all this meaningless nonsense which long has dominated metaphysical thought and brought it into disrepute.”

“Tears don't hurt like the ache does.”

“Tu deviens responsable, pour toujours, de ce que tu as apprivoisé : You become responsible forever for what you have tamed.”

“Love is sweet as summer showers, love is a wondrous work of art, but your love is like a giant pigeon crapping on my heart!”

“The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.”

“I will love again, even if it takes a lifetime to get over you.”

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

“I can stop the pain, if I will it all away.”

“Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?”

“I've never belonged to anyone!”

“Frankly my dear I don’t give a damn!”

“Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it.”

“Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.”

“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”

“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”

“It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!”

“All novelty is but oblivion.”

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“That which one does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. They all have a power beyond his own.”

“Behind every bitch, there’s a man that made her that way.”

“Time is making fools of us again.”

“I wonder if you know how it really feels to be left outside alone.”

“La noche irá sin prisa de nostalgía: The night will go by without rushing nostalgia.”

“I'm sick and tired of always being sick and tired.”

“I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and a dog, the footsteps of friends and you.”

“I have been half in love with easeful death…”

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”

“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”

“Never explain yourself, your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.”

“The truth, is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“Love is what we call our ignorance of what whips us.”

“Cogito ergo sum”: “Je pense donc je suis”: “I think, therefore I am”