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Harold Nicolson: To be a...

Harold Nicolson: To be a...

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ralph Bunche: If you want...

Ralph Bunche: If you want...

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

Source: In Great...

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Catherine the Great: I may be...

Catherine the Great: I may be...

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at...

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Catherine the Great: Your wits make...

Catherine the Great: Your wits make...

Your wits make others witty.

Source: Letter to Voltaire, In The Complete Works of...

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Catherine the Great: I shall be...

Catherine the Great: I shall be...

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

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Abigail Adams: Learning is not...

Abigail Adams: Learning is not...

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with...

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Lady Bird Johnson: Walk away from...

Lady Bird Johnson: Walk away from...

Walk away from it until you're stronger. All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able...

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Lady Bird Johnson: It's odd that...

Lady Bird Johnson: It's odd that...

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Whenever I was...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Whenever I was...

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away...

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Betty Ford: . . ....

Betty Ford: . . ....

. . . a woman . . . told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. But I just keep coming back, she said. I...

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: With children no...

Eleanor Holmes Norton: With children no...

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their...

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William Makepeace Thackeray: Let the man...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Let the man...

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world...

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Douglas Adams: Nothing travels faster...

Douglas Adams: Nothing travels faster...

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own...

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Christopher Morley: Man makes a...

Christopher Morley: Man makes a...

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the...

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Christopher Morley: I had a...

Christopher Morley: I had a...

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to...

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Salman Rushdie: Literature is where...

Salman Rushdie: Literature is where...

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I...

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Arnold Bennett: Does there, I...

Arnold Bennett: Does there, I...

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is...

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George Eliot: We hand folks...

George Eliot: We hand folks...

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Source: Adam Bede, ch....

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George Eliot: The intense happiness...

George Eliot: The intense happiness...

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and...

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George Eliot: It was a...

George Eliot: It was a...

It was a pity he couldna be hatched o'er again, an' hatched different.

Source: Adam...

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