"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."
— Marilyn Monroe

"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host."
— Dorothy Parker

"Don't look at me in that tone of voice."
— Dorothy Parker

"What fresh hell is this?"
— Dorothy Parker (The Portable Dorothy Parker)

"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue."
— Dorothy Parker

"They sicken of the calm who know the storm."
— Dorothy Parker

"By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying."
— Dorothy Parker

"Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live."
— Dorothy Parker

"Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life."
— Dorothy Parker

"So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'"
-- Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, 'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead."
— Dorothy Parker

"I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen."
— Dorothy Parker

"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses."
— Dorothy Parker

"Time doth flit; oh shit."
— Dorothy Parker

"There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."
— Dorothy Parker

"A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika."
— Dorothy Parker

"In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you."
— Dorothy Parker

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."
— Dorothy Parker

"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."
— Dorothy Parker

"I wish I could drink like a lady.
I can take one or two at the most.
Three and I'm under the table.
Four and I'm under the host."
— Dorothy Parker

""This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.""
— Dorothy Parker

"Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun.
Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?"
— Dorothy Parker

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away."
— Dorothy Parker

"There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it."
— Dorothy Parker

"If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you."
— Dorothy Parker

"Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa."
— Dorothy Parker

"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."
— Dorothy Parker

"Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day."
— Dorothy Parker

"Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect."
— Margaret Mitchell

"I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. "
— Margaret Mitchell

"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
- Rhett Butler"
— Margaret Mitchell

"Until you've lost your reputation, you'll never realize what a burden it was."
— Margaret Mitchell

"I Can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

""Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"Scarlet O'Hara was not beautiful but men failed to realize it.
"
— Margaret Mitchell

""Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

"An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.""
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. ANyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." said by Rhett Butler, Part Three; Chapter 23"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"'Sir,' she said, 'you are no gentleman!'
'An apt observation,' he answered airily. 'And you, Miss, are no lady.' He seemed to find her very amusing, for he laughed softly again."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"There aren't too many laughs in Gone with the Wind but this always makes me laugh. All the women are gathered in Melanie's house after Scarlett has been assaulted on the way home from the lumber mill. The character, Archie, is chewing tobacco and spits into the fire making them all jump. India cries "Need you expectorate so loudly?" Aunt Pitty says "I was always so glad dear Papa didn't chew." "
— Margaret Mitchell

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

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

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy