Quotes to inspire and reflect

Ruin seize thee, ruthless King!

In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes;

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.

If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Love is a universal migraine.

Goodbye to all that.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon

There’s a cool web of language winds us in,

Never open the door to the least of evils, for many other, greater ones lurk outside.

The proletarian state must bring up thousands of excellent ‘mechanics of culture’, ‘engineers of the soul’.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.

That’s the way with these directors, they’re always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

There is no arguing with Johnson; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

Gentlemen, include me out.

The first blow is half the battle.

I … chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

This is Liberty-Hall, gentlemen.

The very pink of perfection.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,

Measures not men, have always been my mark.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Don’t let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

How small, of all that human hearts endure,

The man recovered of the bite,

The doctor found, when she was dead,—

Man wants but little here below,

How wide the limits stand

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,

A man he was to all the country dear,

And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

How happy he who crowns in shades like these,

Mehr Licht!

Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey,

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast.

None but the lonely heart

When we take people, thou wouldst say, merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved.

Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn?

If I love you, what does that matter to you!

Über allen Gipfeln

Die Wahlverwandtschaften.

In art the best is good enough.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.

Die Tat ist alles, nichts der Ruhm.