Jen's favorite quotes

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
— Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead)

51 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love

2,882 people liked it

"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

965 people liked it

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
— William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

tags: insults, shakespeare

463 people liked it

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. "
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

51 people liked it

"Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. "
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

36 people liked it

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."
— Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book)

12 people liked it

"She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. (last lines)"
— Kate Chopin (The Awakening)

3 people liked it

"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. "
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

8 people liked it

"The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn."
— Guy de Maupassant (The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant)

tags: kiss

4 people liked it

"Omit needless words."
— William Strunk Jr. (The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. & How To Speak And Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin - Special Edition)

tags: words, writing

4 people liked it

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessay sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."
— William Strunk Jr.

2 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter

18,328 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

12,116 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

7,614 people liked it

"Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life."
— Kate Chopin (The Awakening, and Selected Stories)

32 people liked it

"The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth."
— Kate Chopin (The Awakening)

24 people liked it

"The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies"
— Kate Chopin (The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin)

tags: art

6 people liked it

"I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself."
— Kate Chopin

2 people liked it

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver."
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Women and Economics)

tags: equality, feminism, women

27 people liked it

"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

9 people liked it

"Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil."
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

tags: death

10 people liked it

"This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose."
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4 people liked it

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

tags: inspirational

3,194 people liked it

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
— George Eliot

tags: silence, widsom

28 people liked it

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

1,694 people liked it

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
— Henry James

tags: tea

10 people liked it

"A cup of tea would restore my normality."
— Douglas Adams

33 people liked it

"God does not play dice with the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: science

173 people liked it

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: god, world

1,006 people liked it

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