Erica's favorite quotes

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight

5,704 people liked it

"Never do anything yourself that others can do for you."
— Agatha Christie

69 people liked it

"There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well"
— Dame Agatha Christie

5 people liked it

"Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists. "
— Agatha Christie (Murder in Mesopotamia)

tags: marriage

16 people liked it

"Go to hell, I'm reading!"
— Archie Goodwin

4 people liked it

"Darkness has always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light?"
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

tags: beans, evil, goodness, inspirational

56 people liked it

"[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion."
— Clive Barker

tags: chaos, horror, illusion, oblivion, reality, truth

39 people liked it

"Give me B movies or give me death! "
— Clive Barker

tags: because, just

13 people liked it

"There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat."
— Clive Barker (Books of Blood 2)

7 people liked it

"It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that
phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone."
— Clive Barker (Books of Blood 2)

23 people liked it

"...cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."
— Oscar Wilde

11 people liked it

"Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

74 people liked it

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: selfishness

264 people liked it

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: america

277 people liked it

"The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms."
— Oscar Wilde

4 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul

11,523 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

7,898 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

6,839 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness

6,046 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

6,434 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work

5,496 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

5,251 people liked it

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