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Mark Twain: I don't know...

Mark Twain: I don't know...

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to...

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Mark Twain: I was born...

Mark Twain: I was born...

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

Source:
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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George Eliot: Delicious autumn! My...

George Eliot: Delicious autumn! My...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the...

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George Eliot: You have such...

George Eliot: You have such...

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem...

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George Eliot: No story is...

George Eliot: No story is...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same...

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George Eliot: But most of...

George Eliot: But most of...

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing...

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George Eliot: Errors look so...

George Eliot: Errors look so...

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray;...

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George Eliot: But what we...

George Eliot: But what we...

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: No modest man...

Mary Wortley Montagu: No modest man...

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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G K Chesterton: The doctrine of...

G K Chesterton: The doctrine of...

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is...

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G K Chesterton: The man who...

G K Chesterton: The man who...

The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a...

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G K Chesterton: I regard golf...

G K Chesterton: I regard golf...

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Source: In Webster's...

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G K Chesterton: The mind that...

G K Chesterton: The mind that...

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's, but the mind that never finds its way back is the...

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G K Chesterton: People in high...

G K Chesterton: People in high...

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily...

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G K Chesterton: The rolling English...

G K Chesterton: The rolling English...

The rolling English drunkard made the rolling
English road.
A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles...

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G K Chesterton: Variability is one...

G K Chesterton: Variability is one...

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one...

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G K Chesterton: Man is an...

G K Chesterton: Man is an...

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the...

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G K Chesterton: Literature has always...

G K Chesterton: Literature has always...

Literature has always been allegorical.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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G K Chesterton: There is one...

G K Chesterton: There is one...

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the...

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Mark Twain: When people do...

Mark Twain: When people do...

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects...

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