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Wells Quotes by Daniel Handler
- One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous…
- Well-read people are less likely to be evil.
- Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out…
- Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee…
- If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good…
- If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too…
- One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or…
- There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages…
- If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.
- It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.
More Wells Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong