Mary > Mary's Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
― Jules Verne

“The earth does not need new continents, but new men.”
― Jules Verne

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn..”
― Dan Brown

“What really matters is what you believe.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“She has mischievious moments when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned?

HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol