Short Quotes
5248 quotes by 3398 authors
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
— Victoria Beckham
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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent…
— Robert Benchley
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I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its…
— Annie Besant
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories…
— Annie Besant
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Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
— Jeff Bezos
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
— Josh Billings
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Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.
— Robert Blair
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I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'
— Selma Blair
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There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
— Mary J. Blige
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We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.
— Michael Bloomberg
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Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.
— Emily Blunt
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And…
— David Bowie
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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
— Ray Bradbury
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I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to…
— Ray Bradbury
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
— Charlotte Bronte
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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
— Geraldine Brooks
Who Wrote These Short Quotes
3,398 authors contributed a total of 5,248 Short Quotes, led by these top contributors: