Famous quotes by Authors

"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie"

Nora Ephron, Author

"Woman absent is woman dead"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending"

William Dean Howells, Author

"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number"

William Dean Howells, Author

"Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks"

Lin Yutang, Author

"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart"

William Dean Howells, Author

"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection"

William Dean Howells, Author

"It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom"

William Dean Howells, Author

"Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own"

Nora Ephron, Author

"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters"

Nora Ephron, Author

"I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that, fortunately, hasn't proved to be the case, and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative"

E. L. Doctorow, Author

"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks"

James Allen, Author

"The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough, they generally run away"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age"

Dorothy L. Sayers, Author

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him"

James Allen, Author

"A man is literally what he thinks"

James Allen, Author

"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself"

James Allen, Author

"There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do"

Jerome K. Jerome, Author

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