Quotes by Novelists - Page 14

Something will turn up.
Benjamin Disraeli
Possessing faith is not convenient. You still have to live it.
Francoise Mallet-Joris
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.
George Sand
The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.
Agnes C. Laut
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
Ayn Rand
They fail and they alone who have not striven.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
W. L. George
Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
Marsha Norman
Let weakness learn meekness.
A. C. Swinburne
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Benjamin Disraeli
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
Thornton Wilder
To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Françoise Sagan
Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honoré de Balzac
So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.
George Moore
Little things affect little minds.
Benjamin Disraeli
No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.
Arnold Bennett
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world.
Cesare Pavese
We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
Benjamin Disraeli
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.
George Santayana
George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
Edmund C. Bentley
London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli
The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.
Stevie Smith
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts ideas and theories a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
Raymond Queneau
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana
Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.
Gail Godwin
When nothing is sure everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble
Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
George Meredith
There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
W Somerset Maugham
Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.
Mme. Louise Colet
Time cools time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann
That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
Thornton Wilder
Life comes in clusters clusters of solitude then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.
May Sarton
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin Disraeli
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
Benjamin Disraeli
The difficulty of life is in the choice.
George Moore
Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.
Walter Scott
Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
George Santayana
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Thomas Mann
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.
George Meredith
There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.
George Santayana
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
Laurence Sterne
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
Laurence Sterne
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.
Rémy de Gourmont
I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
August Strindberg
In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.
Edna O'Brien
Change lays her hand not upon the truth.
Algernon Swinburne
Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W Somerset Maugham
My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.
Luigi Pirandello
The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.
John Hersey
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg
Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
Horace Smith
To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Sir Walter Scott