Famous quotes by Writers

"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything"

Claude McKay, Writer

"Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn"

Neil Innes, Writer

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue"

Voltaire, Writer

"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh"

Voltaire, Writer

"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion"

Voltaire, Writer

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

Voltaire, Writer

"Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him"

Voltaire, Writer

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge"

Voltaire, Writer

"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well"

Voltaire, Writer

"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"The deed is everything, the glory is naught"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

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