Famous quotes by Novelists

"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"He would make a lovely corpse"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Men do not learn much from the lessons of history, and that is the most important of all the lessons of history"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Learning is finding out what you already know"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"True love stories never have endings"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

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