Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. .

A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

should have printed what he meant, not what he said.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles.

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

People generally quarrel because they can't argue.