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#1

“Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Serpent on the Crown

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#2

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
― Elizabeth Peters

tags: amelia-peabody, men, women

3776 likes

#3

“I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.”
― Elizabeth Peters

tags: amelia-peabody, humor, women

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#4

“If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.”
― H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land

tags: misattributed-cassandra-clare, misattributed-jace

10648 likes

#5

“In this world only the paranoid survive.”
― Dean Koontz, Midnight

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#6

“When I was your age, television was called books.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: book, fantasy, humour

3010 likes

#7

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

848 likes

#8

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: absurd, humour, truth, wisdom

628 likes

#9

“Stark raving sane.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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#10

“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

tags: cruelty, evil

429 likes

#11

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: retribution, revenge

1729 likes

#12

“Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: bride, funny, humor, movie, princess

1927 likes

#13

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46505 likes

#14

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25521 likes

#15

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

21524 likes

#16

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

tags: friendship, love

21802 likes

#17

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#18

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

11728 likes

#19

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: friends-betrayal

10309 likes

#20

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

10631 likes

#21

“Being crazy isn't enough.”
― Dr. Seuss

6145 likes

#22

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

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#23

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth

6450 likes

#24

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: troubles

4693 likes

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