Shahriar Morshed > Shahriar's Quotes

“You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“She described how, when her brother’s body was found in a field and brought home, his fists, clenched in rigor mortis, were full of earth and yellow mustard flowers grew from between his fingers.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“In every part of the legendary Valley of Kashmir, whatever people might be doing—walking, praying, bathing, cracking jokes, shelling walnuts, making love or taking a bus-ride home—they were in the rifle-sights of a soldier. And because they were in the rifle-sights of a soldier, whatever they might be doing—walking, praying, bathing, cracking jokes, shelling walnuts, making love or taking a bus-ride home—they were a legitimate target.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“The story flared, then faded.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”
― Christopher Marlowe

“What nourishes me, destroys me”
― Christopher Marlowe

“I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”
― Christopher Marlowe

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“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

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“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

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

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
― Oscar Wilde, Salomé

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw