One Never Quotes
136 One Never quotes by 114 unique authors
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Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that…
— Paul Valery
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I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never…
— Andrea Camilleri
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On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary,…
— Mercedes Lackey
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One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
— Agatha Christie
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Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the…
— Thornton Wilder
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Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who…
— Roland Barthes
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Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as…
— Marisha Pessl
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But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone,…
— David Foster Wallace
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One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.
— Debra Ginsberg
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Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that…
— Fernando Pessoa
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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
— Erma Bombeck
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We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real…
— Diane Ackerman
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I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating…
— David Mitchell
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Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There…
— Adam Smith
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But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another.
— Ann Aguirre
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