Susan Samuel > Susan's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 598
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 19 20
sort by

  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
    Go throw your TV set away,
    And in its place you can install
    A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
    Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
    Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #4
    John Henry Newman
    “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”
    John Henry Newman

  • #5
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #6
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #7
    Cassandra Clare
    “My rapier wit hides my inner pain.”
    Cassandra Clare

  • #8
    “You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.”
    Pat Monahan

  • #9
    Brigham Young
    “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
    Brigham Young

  • #10
    Nick Hornby
    “It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
    Nick Hornby

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #13
    George Carlin
    “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
    George Carlin

  • #14
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I restore myself when I'm alone.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #15
    Robin  Williams
    “See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”
    Robin Williams

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #17
    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #18
    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

  • #20
    “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
    Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
    John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust

  • #21
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
    Joyce Carol Oates

  • #22
    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #23
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #24
    Bill Watterson
    “I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #25
    Golda Meir
    “Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
    Golda Meir

  • #26
    “The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
    Lily Tomlin

  • #27
    I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
    “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #28
    Gautama Buddha
    “There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
    Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #30
    H.L. Mencken
    “The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
    H.L. Mencken



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 19 20