Famous quotes by Writers

"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked"

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered"

"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law"

"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead"

"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness"

"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven"

"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate"

"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write"

"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years"

"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people"

"Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch"

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes"

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning"

"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile"

"One failure is worth seven and a half successes"

"Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality"

"The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded"

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition"

"Historian: an unsuccessful novelist"

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates"

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit"

"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone"

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing"

"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home"

"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times"

"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason"

"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire"

"Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world"

"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it"

"The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence"