Life Quotes

You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike

Robert Galbraith

Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.

Robert Galbraith

Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.

Gary Inbinder

For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.

Jules Barbey-d'Aurevilly

I will probably die a misunderstood virgin like Ophelia in HAMLET, only I won't do it by floating down a stream, singing my own mad song. They'll just find me here, on my bed, on a weekend night, my dead body slumped over a homework assignment. Hopef...

Stephanie Wardrop

And Castle nodded sagely. 'So this is a picture of the meaninglessness of it all! I couldn't agree more.' 'Do you agree?' I asked. 'A minute ago you said something about Jesus.' 'Who?' said Castle. 'Jesus Christ?' 'Oh,' said Castle. ' .' He shrugged....

Kurt Vonnegut

We have to defend views we don't share and impose them on the public; deal with questions we don't understand and vulgarize them for the gallery. We can't have ideas of our own, we have to have those of the editor; and even the editor doesn't have th...

Pitigrilli

The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life.

The Catholic Church

1862 ...although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.

The Catholic Church

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

Alexandre Dumas

Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.

Kurt Vonnegut

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific kn...

Lois McMaster Bujold

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Alexandre Dumas

I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I hav...

Sarah Dunant

I'm online, therefore I am.

Stewart Lee Beck

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

Charles Dickens

Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

Kurt Vonnegut

1951. Law is a rule of conduct enacted by competent authority for the sake of the common good. The moral law presupposes the rational order, established among creatures for their good and to serve their final end, by the power, wisdom, and goodness o...

The Catholic Church

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut

Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth.” “You don’t seem to agree.” “I don’t know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.

Kurt Vonnegut