Famous quotes by Authors

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison"

Marcel Proust, Author

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time"

Marcel Proust, Author

"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments"

Marcel Proust, Author

"A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it"

Marcel Proust, Author

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking"

A. A. Milne, Author

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think"

A. A. Milne, Author

"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady"

Thomas More, Author

"He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies"

Tertullian, Author

"You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology, which rolls off your tongues, is mental garbage"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news"

John Le Carre, Author

"I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention"

John Le Carre, Author

"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember"

John Le Carre, Author

"The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat"

John Le Carre, Author

"It's the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone"

Thomas More, Author

"Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done"

Sam Ewing, Author

"He who flees will fight again"

Tertullian, Author

"Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage"

Tertullian, Author

"Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder"

Tertullian, Author

"My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me"

Thomas More, Author

"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself"

John Le Carre, Author

"A committee is an animal with four back legs"

John Le Carre, Author

"We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own"

John Le Carre, Author

"Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes"

John Le Carre, Author

"For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict"

John Le Carre, Author

"Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do!"

John Le Carre, Author

"I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives"

John Le Carre, Author

"Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve"

Lillian Smith, Author

"Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years"

Lillian Smith, Author

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