Novelists Quotes - Page 8

• 

  Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

  John Galsworthy

  Love, Birthday, Death

  John Galsworthy (2013). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.353, Lulu Press, Inc

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

  133 Copy quote

  Show source

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  Gail Godwin

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  60 Copy quote
• 

  Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Love, Life, Relationship

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 10 (1971)

  89 Copy quote

  Show source

• Courage is grace under pressure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

  When asked what he meant by 'guts' in an interview with Dorothy Parker: 'New Yorker' 30 November 1929

  126 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

  131 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Garden of Eden”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

  266 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Country, Sweet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spiritual, Hate, Hatred

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

  202 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

  544 Copy quote

  Show source

• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Wisdom, Art

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

  98 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Positive

  106 Copy quote

• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  239 Copy quote

• Gods always behave like the people who make them.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Motivational, God, Atheist

  121 Copy quote
• 

  There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Time Must Have a Stop (1945) ch. 7

  384 Copy quote

  Show source

• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

  357 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

  185 Copy quote

  Show source

• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Country, Travel

  51 Copy quote

• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Being Strong, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 02, 2015

  135 Copy quote

  Show source

• God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mothers Day, God, Christian

  102 Copy quote

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Differences, Tkam

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.44, Infobase Publishing

  15 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Positivity, Sunshine

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

  128 Copy quote

  Show source

• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  Harper Lee

  Honesty, Powerful, Integrity

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 11 (1960)

  26 Copy quote

  Show source