Quotes - Ashmita Chatterjee (Mumbai, 16, India) Showing 1-30 of 59

#1

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51605 likes

#2

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27857 likes

#3

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6458 likes

#4

“Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

130 likes

#5

“You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

tags: love

2133 likes

#6

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

2609 likes

#7

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

tags: inspirational

2930 likes

#8

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
― Madonna

3653 likes

#9

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

19597 likes

#10

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29736 likes

#11

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23097 likes

#12

“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

25520 likes

#13

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27729 likes

#14

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35631 likes

#15

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23583 likes

#16

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading

18878 likes

#17

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17573 likes

#18

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

7339 likes

#19

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

8312 likes

#20

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

2581 likes

#21

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

165227 likes

#22

“I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

73 likes

#23

“Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

tags: desperation, doubt

62 likes

#24

“Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

32 likes

#25

“Valentine's Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

33 likes

#26

“I've kissed a prince, Mom. I hope it doesn't turn into a frog.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

877 likes

#27