Catrin's favorite quotes

"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree."
— George Orwell

12 people liked it

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
— George Orwell (In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950)

tags: humananity, truth, wisdom

109 people liked it

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
— George Orwell (1984)

52 people liked it

"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them."
— George Orwell

tags: intellectualism

10 people liked it

"Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm. "
— Alice Walker

21 people liked it

"When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me."
— Alice Walker

8 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom

10,705 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

7,844 people liked it

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

1,375 people liked it

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heaven, humor

912 people liked it

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: fashion

367 people liked it

"Every woman is a rebel."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: rebel, women

252 people liked it

"This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: wallpaper

91 people liked it

"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast."
— Oscar Wilde

125 people liked it

"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali."
— Salvador Dali

tags: art, humor, inpirational

35 people liked it

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."
— Salvador Dali

tags: humor, poet

15 people liked it

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
— Salvador Dali

tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success

79 people liked it

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