Blackstiletto's quotes

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"We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: logic, love
431 people liked it

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: insanity, sanity
828 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,321 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,141 people liked it

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,716 people liked it

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

tags: education, fashion
1,360 people liked it

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money
1,256 people liked it

"Women are made to be loved not understood."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

455 people liked it

"Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: wit
611 people liked it

"Not my Daughter, you Bitch!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: anger, molly-weasley
286 people liked it

"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: mind, thoughts
154 people liked it

"It unscrews the other way."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

tags: humor
115 people liked it

""Constant vigilance!""
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

44 people liked it

"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

tags: evil, good
168 people liked it

"The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead."
— Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat)

tags: despair
113 people liked it

"Evil is a point of view. We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms."
— Anne Rice

tags: evil
39 people liked it

"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt"
— Anne Rice

tags: death
28 people liked it

"Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable."
— Anne Rice

19 people liked it

"Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to."
— Stephen King (Dolores Claiborne)

tags: bitch
185 people liked it

"If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you."
— Stephen King

144 people liked it

"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."
— Stephen King

tags: horror, vampire
71 people liked it

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
— Gore Vidal

tags: america, american-ts, americans, hope, vote
57 people liked it

"We can't stop here, this is bat country!"
— Hunter S. Thompson

92 people liked it

"Listen to them - children of the night. What music they make."
— Bram Stoker (Dracula)

22 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,628 people liked it

"There are too many books in the world to read in a single life time. You have to draw the line somewhere."
— Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)

tags: books, re-reading, reading
25 people liked it

"Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. "
— Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)

9 people liked it

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
— Neil Gaiman

798 people liked it

"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."
— Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

tags: books, bookstore, towns
342 people liked it

"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. "
— Neil Gaiman (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)

238 people liked it

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: cats, humor, life
764 people liked it

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
573 people liked it

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. "
— Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man)

tags: awesome, darkness, dudes, light, quote, right
65 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading
1,334 people liked it

"There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library."
— Ray Bradbury

62 people liked it

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. (Act 4, Scene 1)"
— William Shakespeare (Macbeth)

103 people liked it

"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them."
— John Waters

11 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
7,718 people liked it

"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else."
— John Waters

26 people liked it

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains, must be in want of more brains."
— Seth Grahame-Smith (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

3 people liked it