« All All Quotes · Doris Lessing's Page
All Quotes by Doris Lessing
- She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young…
- And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the…
- Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it…
- Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
- You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way…
- I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
- One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
- The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age.…
- Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we…
- With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no…
- The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't…
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
- All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.
- All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
- I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
- My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my…
- There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to…
- When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look…
- You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all…
More All Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle