Please post some quotes by prominent literary figures here! Include the name of the person.



"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!" - Oscar Wilde

"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Ay, there's the rub." - William Shakespeare

Charles Dickens - A tale of two cities

"Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends" - Ernest Hemingway, Old Man and the Sea

aka 'monologue with a fish'.

"Love has no age, no limit; and no death." , John Galsworthy.

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams

One of my favourites :

"What must be shall be." , William Shakespeare.

Round and round in circles
Completing the charm.

T. S. Eliot

"God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them." , Khalil Gibran.

"Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love..."
~ William Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing ~

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not."
-J. R. R. Tolkien in The Fellowship of the Ring

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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
-Warren Buffett-

i find it so damn true.

"Strong reasons makes strong actions." , William Shakespeare.

In memory of Jon Updike

'Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.'

I like this quote by einstein.

'The sign of a cluttered desk shows a messy mind but then an empty desk shows an empty mind?"

hihi,the quote I tell my mom every time she asks me to clean up.

may not get the quote totally right but then that's probably excused by this quote.

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
- Hesketh Pearson

"There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd." , William Shakespere.

"Realize deeply that the present of the moment is all you ever have." , Echart Tolle.

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.."
"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." , William Shakespeare.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain.

"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms." , by Thomas Hardy.

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit" - William Shakespeare

"Good judgement comes from experience , and experience comes from bad judgement." , by Barry LePatner.

[b]MEN WERE DESIGNED FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, ENGINEERED FOR SUCCESS AND ENDOWED WITH THE SEED OF GREATNESS.[

Zig Ziglar

(Of Course Women Included)

"Bad men live to eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink in order to live". - SOCRATES.

"Don't eat the green wobbly bit." - Terry Pretchett

"i'm an explorer. .... And i need all the ways out of here that i can get. So i shall keep walking."
-- Neil Gaiman : Caroline

Fairness does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. - Mitch Alborn (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

All that glisters is not gold. - Shakespeare ( the merchant of venice)

Luck is for suckers - john green ( looking for alaska)

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma--which is livingwith the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple Computers

"Success doesn't come to you. You go to it." - Marva Collins.

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"My mind rebels at stagnation" -- Sherlock Holmes in The Sign Of Four

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln.

"If you want to be happy, be!" - Leo Tolstoy.

Not sure if they're all true, but they sound good

"Write drunk; edit sober." - Ernest Hemingway

"I wouldn't advocate sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf the Grey

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - John A. Shedd

Not intending to be religious... but can I include a biblical quote? It's just too wonderful not to be shared!

Owe no one anything, except to love one another -- Romans 13:8

" The strangest secret is you become what you think about " by Earl Nightingale

Think about this quote for a moment. You become a bank clerk because that's what you think about most of the time. You become a doctor because that's what you think most of the time. You become a F1 driver because that's what you think most of the time. We are the product of our own thinking.

So are you going to become a bank clerk or a millionaire ?

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"Happy are those who dream dreama and are ready to pay the price to make them come true"

~ Leon J. Suenes ~

“Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"When you really want something to happen, the whole world conspires to help you achieve it"
- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Oo, another inspiring quote but not literary. (hope it's ok)

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which i rebuild my life"
- J.K. Rowling

"Life is worth living, no matter how cruel it can be." - blassreiter

First post in here about 4 years later, but here goes my recent favourite.

"Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present." - Stephen King for Doctor Sleep.

"By the love of God, the nations are created, and you love them like yourself. Love people as brothers, like freedom, then truth and life are for you."
- Abai Kunanbaiuly (1845-1904)

These are not static problems since there is no static things. The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy