Memorable Quotes

1012 Memorable quotes by 485 unique authors

Beware the ides of March. — William Shakespeare
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men… — Mark Twain
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A… — William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It… — William Shakespeare
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have… — Kurt Vonnegut
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific… — J D Salinger
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. — William Shakespeare
Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants. — Dorothy Parker
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't… — Bill Bryson
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such… — Kurt Vonnegut
He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating. — Ayn Rand
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. — J D Salinger
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. — William Shakespeare
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice… — Aldous Huxley
In this world,” Franny once observed, “just as you’re trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they… — John Irving
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final… — J D Salinger
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. — William Shakespeare
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine,… — J D Salinger
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare
The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their… — Walker Percy
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. — William Shakespeare
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. — William Shakespeare

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