Welcome to the Quotable Success Collections!

Quotable Success, like BeMoreCreative.com, encourages thinking, working, and living more creatively. Creativity is "the power to connect the seemingly unconnected" (W. Plommer). To support this work, we earn a small affiliate commission. Please browse creatively!


Thomas Hardy: That man's silence...

Thomas Hardy: That man's silence...

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Source: Spinks, in Under the...

More about this quote...

James Agee: In every child...

James Agee: In every child...

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the...

More about this quote...

Djuna Barnes: An image is...

Djuna Barnes: An image is...

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Source: Nightwood,...

More about this quote...

Francois Rabelais: I am going...

Francois Rabelais: I am going...

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The bitterest tears...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The bitterest tears...

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

More about this quote...

Gore Vidal: It is the...

Gore Vidal: It is the...

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise,...

More about this quote...

Gore Vidal: Most writers write...

Gore Vidal: Most writers write...

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

More about this quote...

Andre Gide: One doesn't discover...

Andre Gide: One doesn't discover...

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long...

More about this quote...

Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

If I make it, I will carry a pencil instead of the ritual sword.

Source: On her...

More about this quote...

Edward Hoagland: Animals are stylized...

Edward Hoagland: Animals are stylized...

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga --stylized because even the most acute of them have little...

More about this quote...

Olive Schreiner: How hard it...

Olive Schreiner: How hard it...

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on...

More about this quote...

Sir Walter Besant: A man of...

Sir Walter Besant: A man of...

A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral...

More about this quote...

Sir Walter Besant: Tolerance is the...

Sir Walter Besant: Tolerance is the...

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

More about this quote...

Jean Paul: No heroine can...

Jean Paul: No heroine can...

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.

More about this quote...

P G Wodehouse: I always advise...

P G Wodehouse: I always advise...

I always advise people never to give advice.

Source: In The Golfer's Book of...

More about this quote...

Christopher Morley: The courage of...

Christopher Morley: The courage of...

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Name the greatest...

Mark Twain: Name the greatest...

Name the greatest of all the inventors. Accident.

Source: Notebook, 1935.
--...

More about this quote...

Stendhal: I call crystallization...

Stendhal: I call crystallization...

I call crystallization that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of...

More about this quote...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Generosity is a...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Generosity is a...

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his...

More about this quote...

Upton Sinclair: The remedy [for...

Upton Sinclair: The remedy [for...

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce...

More about this quote...

Page 1,024 of 2,002


(C)2025 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA