Quotes by Novelists - Page 11

One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.
Anthony Powell
There is only one happiness in life to love and be loved.
George Sand
Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.
Laurence Sterne
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is love not reason that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann
Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence.
Carl Sandburg
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Cesare Pavese
We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
W Somerset Maugham
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
And whatever it is that keeps widening your heart that's Mary too not only the power inside you but the love. And when you get down to it Lily that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love - but to persist in love.
Sue Monk Kidd
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand
One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Walter Scott
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.
Thornton Wilder
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
When fate's got it in for you there's no limit to what you may have to put up with.
Georgette Heyer
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli
To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Honoré de Balzac
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli
Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven.
Henry Fielding
Guard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without hesitation how to lose without regret how to acquire without meanness know how to replace in your heart by the happiness of those you love the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.
George Sand
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell
Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.
Luigi Pirandello
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
George Santayana
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
George Santayana
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
Juan Montalvo
The conquest of the earth which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
Joseph Conrad
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Walter Scott
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W Somerset Maugham
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
George Santayana
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved.
W Somerset Maugham
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
Thornton Wilder
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli
If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.
Thomas Mann
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
George Santayana
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honoré de Balzac
Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary
Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.
Joseph Conrad
After all there is but one race - humanity.
George Moore
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true.
Frank Swinnerton
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Luigi Pirandello
The sickening pang of hope deferr'd.
Walter Scott
Hope is a light diet but very stimulating.
Honoré de Balzac
Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
Sir Walter Scott
Hope is a risk that must be run.
Georges Bernanos
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Ouida
Hope is an echo hope ties itself yonder yonder.
Carl Sandburg
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benét
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
George Santayana
We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.
Mona Caird
For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self a journey into our killer's desire.
Ayi Kwei Armah
Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
George Santayana
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.
Benjamin Disraeli
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
Joseph Conrad
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli