Novelist Quotes

There is no truth. There is only perception.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

She made a ravishing corpse.

The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!