Author Quotes

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'