Quotes to inspire and reflect

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Last cigarette!!

I s’pect I growed. Don’t think nobody never made me.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds—if it was a bet, you wouldn’t take it.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily.

Eternity’s a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it all going to end?

I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can’t do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory—they’re all blood, you see.

I’m with you on the free press. It’s the newspapers I can’t stand.

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.

This be the verse you grave for me:

Under the wide and starry sky

Go, little book, and wish to all

Give to me the life I love,

All I seek, the heaven above

A child should always say what’s true,

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, Say, could that lad be I?

I was the giant great and still

I have a little shadow that goes in and out

In winter I get up at night

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Tip me the black spot.

Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!

Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest

If landscapes were sold, like the sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go the length of twopence every day of my life.

Man is not truly one, but truly two.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much:—surely that may be his epitaph, of which he need not be ashamed.

She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.

Every one lives by selling something.

We hear the Secretary of State boasting of his brinkmanship—the art of bringing us to the edge of the abyss.

The young man who asks you to set him one heart-beat from the Presidency of the United States.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes!

If they [the Republicans] will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Let’s talk sense to the American people.

I do not know which to prefer,

At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make