Cora May

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth