Except Quotes
4383 Except quotes by 2703 unique authors
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Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1,…
— William Shakespeare
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Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?
— C.S. Lewis
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But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not…
— Ludwig Borne
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
— Rudyard Kipling
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What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from…
— Ayn Rand
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I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.
— Tim O'Brien
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God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the…
— David Livingstone
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anything a guy can do a girl can do better...except being stupid
— Kimora Lee Simmons
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I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
— Virginia Woolf
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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?…
— Oscar Wilde
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Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. The reason for some of these trials cannot be…
— James E. Faust
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It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
— Oscar Wilde
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I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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That was all he said, except for "Aaaeerrgghhh." Which is not really a word. But the reason that he screamed "Aaaeerrgghhh" was that Franco had…
— Eoin Colfer
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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
— Mark Twain
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I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.
— Peter McWilliams
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So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber…
— Douglas Adams
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You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll…
— Ayn Rand
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I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
— Dodie Smith
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She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs…
— Margaret Mitchell
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