Bon Mots Quotes

“Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.”
― William Kennedy, Roscoe

“I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde

“The interesting people are always immoderate.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“As a boy I was saved from a life of ignorance by my little hometown library.
As a college student I was educated in the
stacks of the Swarthmore library. And as an adult I use libraries daily in my search for the facts and the enlightenment I use in writing my books.
In fact, I like libraries so much that I
married a librarian.”
― James Michener, Reader's Digest Condensed Books - Deluxe Edition, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Vine and the Olive, The Source, Geordie, The Century of the Surgeon

“Те, у кого есть обаяние, в мозгах не нуждаются.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“co jest ważne, ale nie ma żadnego znaczenia”
― Szczepan Twardoch, Drach

“A palotában senki nem gyötörte magát azzal, hogy magyarázatot keresett volna, miért van az egyszarvúnak két szarva.
Anélkül is világos: egy olyan egyszarvú, amelyiknek két szarva van, az még jobb egyszarvú.”
― Undinė Radzevičiūtė, Žuvys ir drakonai