Quotes to inspire and reflect

Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion T. S.

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates. T. S.

And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls. T. S.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. T. S.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a T. S.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. T. S.

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. T. S.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which h W.

Life isn't long enough for love and art. W.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. W.

When things are at their worst I find something always happens. W.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was stir W.

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. W.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. W.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent W.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. W.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. W.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. W.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. W.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. W.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness W.

D'you call life a bad job Never We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been wort W.

I do not confer praise or blame I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world. W.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. W.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. W.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. W.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. W.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. W.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the W.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God. W.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. W.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer W.

Tolerance is another word for indifference. W.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he real W.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. W.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. W.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is child W.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the W.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake. W.

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. W.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake this is commonly misquotes as you can't have your cake and eat it, too.

No one wants advice -- only corroboration.

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.