Quotes to inspire and reflect

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. G. K.

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. W.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. H. L.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious. T. S.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts. Ernesto "Che

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.