2026 Reading Challenge

Manasi > Manasi's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 186
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7
sort by

    like
  • #1
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
    tags: humor, love
    1203 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse
    tags: book-buying, book-collecting, poetry
    165 likes

    • like
  • #3
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally
    tags: brains, marriage
    2124 likes

    • like
  • #4
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
    5043 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Alfred Tennyson
    “I am a part of all that I have met.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson
    tags: attitude, inspirational
    2353 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Alfred Tennyson
    “I hold it true, whate'er befall;
    I feel it when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.

    Verse XXVII”
    ― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
    tags: bereavement, consolation, loss, love, poetry, sorrow
    334 likes

    • like
  • #7
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
    47058 likes

    • like
  • #8
    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    17214 likes

    • like
  • #9
    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
    24003 likes

    • like
  • #10
    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
    16500 likes

    • like
  • #11
    John Green
    “Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege
    14026 likes

    • like
  • #12
    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
    18081 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Markus Zusak
    “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    5913 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Paulo Coelho
    “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: love
    12583 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Paulo Coelho
    “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
    tags: inspirational
    7360 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Paulo Coelho
    “Maktub" (It is written.)”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
    754 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Paulo Coelho
    “If I must fall, may it be from a high place.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
    456 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Alfred Tennyson
    “I will drink life to the lees.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    808 likes

    • like
  • #19
    “The busier you are working on you, your life and your happiness, the less time you will have to dwell on another's success other than to celebrate it.”
    ― Dushka Zapata, How to be ferociously happy and other essays
    29 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148387 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
    151380 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135497 likes

    • like
  • #23
    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
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71688 likes

    • like
  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
    19269 likes

    • like
  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
    "Yes," said Harry stiffly.
    "Yes, sir."
    "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
    The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: humor, rebellion, sarcasm
    15183 likes

    • like
  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
    "Yes."
    "You called her a liar?"
    "Yes."
    "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
    "Yes."
    "Have a biscuit, Potter.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    10514 likes

    • like
  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
    "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    tags: fred-weasley, george-weasley, ron-weasley
    8776 likes

    • like
  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: books
    5992 likes

    • like
  • #29
    J.K. Rowling
    “Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: humor
    4272 likes

    • like
  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: inspirational
    3879 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7
All Quotes



Tags From Manasi’s Quotes

humor
love
book-buying
book-collecting
poetry
brains
marriage
friendship
literature
attitude
inspirational
bereavement
consolation
loss
sorrow
satisfaction
self-determination
books
reading
augustus-waters
hazel
heartbreak
privilege
humans
pain
scars
attributed-no-source
human-nature
infinity
philosophy
science
stupidity
universe
simile
soul
intelligence
self-deprecation
dumbledore
life
snape
rebellion
sarcasm
fred-weasley
george-weasley
ron-weasley