T. Renee > T.'s Quotes

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Sin should be solitary and have no accomplices.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
― Frederick Douglass

“To see and hear and write brave things.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I have plenty of friends I don't like”
― Lady Grantham

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Elegance is refusal.”
― Coco Chanel

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Coco Chanel

“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”
― Coco Chanel

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
― Coco Chanel

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Just because you can doesn't mean you should.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon

“If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.”
― Jon Stewart

“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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

“Yes, I may be considered an enemy of woman; but if I can help her see the light, I shall not complain. The misfortune of woman is not that she is unable to do the work of man, but that she is wasting her life force to outdo him, with a tradition of centuries which has left her physically incapable of keeping pace with him. Oh, I know some have succeeded, but at what cost, at what terrific cost! The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes. She can give suffrage or the ballot no new quality, nor can she receive anything from it that will enhance her own quality. Her development, her freedom, her independence, must come from and through herself. First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity. Second, by refusing the right to anyone over her body; by refusing to bear children, unless she wants them; by refusing to be a servant to God, the State, society, the husband, the family, etc.; by making her life simpler, but deeper and richer. That is, by trying to learn the meaning and substance of life in all its complexities, by freeing herself from the fear of public opinion and public condemnation. Only that, and not the ballot, will set woman free, will make her a force hitherto unknown in the world, a force for real love, for peace, for harmony; a force of divine fire, of life giving; a creator of free men and women.”
― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener