Quotes - Irena James (London, H9, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 1,068

#1

“Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor

998 likes

#2

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: forget, memory, mnemonic-help

1710 likes

#3

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: inspiration

5825 likes

#4

“I have seen the eternal Footman snicker hold my coat, and snicker. And in short I was afraid...”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

9 likes

#5

“I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

28 likes

#6

“And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you
I will show you fear in a handful of dust”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

153 likes

#7

“Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
― Arthur Miller

1263 likes

#8

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: humor, idleness, inspirational

5364 likes

#9

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: beauty, imperfections

3898 likes

#10

“See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

tags: death-of-a-salesman, fakes, falseness, people, phonies

52 likes

#11

“The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.”
― Arthur Miller

151 likes

#12

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: irreligion, organized-religion, religion

1996 likes

#13

“The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: censorship, free-inquiry, free-speech, irony

113 likes

#14

“...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

tags: god, rainbows

14 likes

#15

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

439 likes

#16

“The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Fragments

125 likes

#17

“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."

[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe

tags: bad-books, good-books, great-writing, reading

460 likes

#18

“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: heartache, loss, love

3085 likes

#19

“One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: religion

320 likes

#20

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: common-sense

257 likes

#22

“You create your own universe as you go along.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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