Celia > Celia's Quotes

“I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.”
― Atticus

“Life is, in its very essence and character, a terrible mystery—this whole business of living by killing and eating. But it is a childish attitude to say no to life with all its pain, to say that this is something that should not have been.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“By my head, here come the Capulets."
Mercutio- "By my heel, I care not.”
― William Shakespeare

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“When I was young I read almost always to learn; Today, sometimes, I read to forget.”
― Giovanni Papini

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan - English

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul can focus its intellectual eye”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.”
― Nancy Mitford

“O God, make me good, but not yet.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
― Gertrude Stein

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“For what it’s worth... it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you’ve never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In case you've forgotten, I tried to kill you."

"And failed."

"Here's to second chances.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“All knowledge hurts.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes