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George Meredith: Ah, what a...

George Meredith: Ah, what a...

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!


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George MacDonald: The principal part...

George MacDonald: The principal part...

The principal part of faith is patience.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Saul Bellow: Everybody needs his...

Saul Bellow: Everybody needs his...

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

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Emily Bronte: Vain are the...

Emily Bronte: Vain are the...

Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts, unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest...

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Toni Morrison: If there's a...

Toni Morrison: If there's a...

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write...

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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,...

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Theodore Dreiser: Nothing is proved,...

Theodore Dreiser: Nothing is proved,...

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

Source: The Titan, 1914.
-- Theodore...

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Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

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

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Andre Gide: It is better...

Andre Gide: It is better...

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Source:...

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Francois Mauriac: Men resemble great...

Francois Mauriac: Men resemble great...

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never...

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Alan Brien: Violence is the...

Alan Brien: Violence is the...

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Source: In Punch, 7 Feb 1973.
--...

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Alan Brien: The country is...

Alan Brien: The country is...

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized...

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Alan Brien: The majority of...

Alan Brien: The majority of...

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: It will all...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: It will all...

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. ....

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Anne Rice: The truth is,...

Anne Rice: The truth is,...

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly...

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Anne Rice: . . ....

Anne Rice: . . ....

. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny...

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Barbara Cartland: We romantic writers...

Barbara Cartland: We romantic writers...

We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where...

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Herman Wouk: I regard the...

Herman Wouk: I regard the...

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Source: In...

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Charles Reade: A wife is...

Charles Reade: A wife is...

A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his...

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Nancy Mitford: To fall in...

Nancy Mitford: To fall in...

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

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