Muriel > Muriel's Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

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

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
― Jane Austen

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Me and polite have never been on close terms.”
― Jim Butcher

“Babe!”
― Janet Evanovich

“I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?”
― Janet Evanovich, One for the Money

“My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.”
― Janet Evanovich

“One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head."
Eddie DeChooch”
― Janet Evanovich, Seven Up

“Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry.”
― Janet Evanovich

“You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
― Georgette Heyer, Powder and Patch