Quotes - J.A. Ironside (julesanneironside) (Cotswolds, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 176

#1

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

8118 likes

#2

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

4956 likes

#3

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

3823 likes

#4

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

tags: courage, talent

4623 likes

#5

“I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: butter, honey, millionaires, tea

1215 likes

#6

“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
― Jenny Joseph, Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

1267 likes

#7

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

3504 likes

#8

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

3838 likes

#9

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

tags: wisdom

2047 likes

#10

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

2193 likes

#11

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

2272 likes

#12

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

2198 likes

#13

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

tags: night, poetry

7873 likes

#14

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: catfish, eccentricity, eels, fish, individuality

2059 likes

#15

“We are all worthy of one another.”
― Edward P. Jones, The Known World

tags: love, worthiness

1374 likes

#16

“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
― Beryl Bainbridge

941 likes

#17

“All the world's a stage we're going through.”
― Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

1034 likes

#18

“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

1096 likes

#19

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: grudges

4145 likes

#20

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

tags: canterbury-tales, chaucer, franklin-s-tale, patience

1562 likes

#21

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: writing-advice

4143 likes

#22

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

2645 likes

#23

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

2457 likes

#24

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

3241 likes

#25

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: fate, history

1852 likes

#26

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: history, rome, soul, thoughts, wisdom

2140 likes

#27

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
― Epictetus

tags: history, humility, philosophy

1799 likes

#28

“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: history

509 likes

#29