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Abigail Adams: We have too...

Abigail Adams: We have too...

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: It helped her...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: It helped her...

It helped her [Caroline] learn that something you create yourself is the best kind of...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: I always wanted...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: I always wanted...

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college . . . I did other...

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Henry Kissinger: Next week there...

Henry Kissinger: Next week there...

Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.

Source: In...

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Morarji Desai: Life at any...

Morarji Desai: Life at any...

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself...

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Charles James Fox: Kings govern by...

Charles James Fox: Kings govern by...

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Source:...

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Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six...

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Anthony Burgess: Laugh and the...

Anthony Burgess: Laugh and the...

Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.

Source: Inside Mr....

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Booth Tarkington: The only good...

Booth Tarkington: The only good...

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool...

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Charles Dickens: It is a...

Charles Dickens: It is a...

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Source:...

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John Barth: More history is...

John Barth: More history is...

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

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Augusto Roa Bastos: The things that...

Augusto Roa Bastos: The things that...

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he...

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Naomi Mitchison: I read a...

Naomi Mitchison: I read a...

I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this...

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Tom Clancy: I've made up...

Tom Clancy: I've made up...

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

Source: On...

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Alan Paton: Life has not...

Alan Paton: Life has not...

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of...

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William Gilmore Simms: He who would...

William Gilmore Simms: He who would...

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of...

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Patrick White: But bombs are...

Patrick White: But bombs are...

But bombs are unbelievable until they actually fall.

Source: Riders in the Chariot,...

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George Eliot: That's what a...

George Eliot: That's what a...

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's...

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Thomas Wolfe: The notion that...

Thomas Wolfe: The notion that...

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed...

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Douglas Adams: You live and...

Douglas Adams: You live and...

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Source: From a collection of quotations...

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