Quotes by Novelists - Page 12

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
John Fowles
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Sir Walter Scott
Every man is the son of his own works.
Cervantes
Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.
Stuart Cloete
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
George Santayana
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark
The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.
Vicki Baum
There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
Charles Kingsley
After the verb "to Love " "to Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.
Bertha von Suttner
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
George Moore
Hell madame is to love no longer.
Georges Bernanos
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
Françoise Sagan
The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.
W Somerset Maugham
What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
James Stephens
You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
Vicki Baum
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Ayn Rand
The more the heart is sated with joy the more it becomes insatiable.
Gabrielle Roy
The truth is laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought choked half strangled or surrendered to with humiliation.
Anne Rice
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
George Sand
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Ouida
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honoré de Balzac
1 am happy and content because I think I am.
Alain-Rene Lesage
Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.
Paul Bourget
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warner
The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
Luigi Pirandello
The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.
R. Briffault
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Locke
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.
August Strindberg
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C.P. Snow
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes a certain degree of courage self-denial to a point love of work and above all a clear conscience.
George Sand
Happiness happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
Joseph Conrad
What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps with it alone she lives.
Ouida
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
May Sarton
Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
I am happy and content because I think I am.
Alain-Rene Lesage
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
William Maxwell
I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.
George Santayana
There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
George Santayana
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W Somerset Maugham
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.
Thomas Mann
A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli
The only cure for grief is action.
G. H. Lewes
Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
Charles Reade
Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
Stephen Spender
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.
George Santayana
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honoré de Balzac
Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.
Charles Kingsley
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warner
Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.
Charles Kingsley
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
Honoré de Balzac