Fictional > Fictional's Quotes

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

“I love you but I'm not in love with you”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than you do...”
― Tony Parsons, Man and Boy

“I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”
― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“She hates everything that is not what she longs for.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир

“Everything depends on upbringing. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Never, never marry, my friend. Here’s my advice to you: don’t marry until you can tell yourself that you’ve done all you could, and until you’ve stopped loving the woman you’ve chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you’ll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you’re old and good for nothing…Otherwise all that’s good and lofty in you will be lost.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed. ”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Where there is law there is injustice”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Russia alone is to be the savior of Europe.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Всё приходит вовремя для того, кто умеет ждать.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Chance created the situation; genius made use of it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and peculiar form of beauty.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Now one often saw only her face and body, while her soul was not seen at all.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Book is a nice companion”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“When in doubt, my dear fellow, do nothing.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace