Quotes to inspire and reflect

How does it feel

She takes just like a woman, yes, she does

And it’s a hard rain’s a gonna fall.

How many roads must a man walk down

Tous pour un, un pour tous.

I know why the caged bird sings!

Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

’Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God’s plenty.

He needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature: he looked inwards, and found her there.

Arms, and the man I sing.

The famous rules, which the French call Des Trots Onitez, or, the Three Unities, which ought to be observed in every regular play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,

Can draw you to her with a single hair.

But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Not Heaven itself upon the past has power;

Wit will shine

Happy the man, and happy he alone,

There is a pleasure sure,

The trumpet shall be heard on high,

The soft complaining flute.

From harmony, from heavenly harmony

The rest to some faint meaning make pretence,

For secrets are edged tools,

All human things are subject to decay,

Fairest Isle, all isles excelling.

And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.

War is the trade of kings.

The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;

I am as free as nature first made man,

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;

Revenge, revenge! Timotheus cries.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Nor is the people’s judgement always true:

A man so various that he seemed to be

But far more numerous was the herd of such

Great wits are sure to madness near allied.

In friendship false, implacable in hate:

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgement.

It is the unofficial force—the Baker Street irregulars.

You know my methods. Apply them.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

What one man can invent another can discover.

‘The dog did nothing in the night-time.’

‘That was the curious incident,’ remarked Sherlock Holmes.