Monique's quotes

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"I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore."
— Sophie Kinsella (Confessions of a Shopaholic)

tags: clothes, humor
52 people liked it

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
— Stephen W. Hawking

tags: ignorance, knowledge
68 people liked it

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

tags: bitch
193 people liked it

"When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning."
— Neil Gaiman (Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions)

793 people liked it

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust
1,374 people liked it

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

302 people liked it

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,012 people liked it

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
3,125 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,844 people liked it

""If you're not ready to die for it, take the
word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.""
— Malcolm X

41 people liked it

"The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."
— Malcolm X (The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley)

25 people liked it

"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
— José Saramago (Blindness)

44 people liked it

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
1,002 people liked it

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: art, life, paradox
179 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,487 people liked it

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: power, sex
568 people liked it

"The heart was made to be broken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heartbreak, love
546 people liked it

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

479 people liked it

"Who, being loved, is poor?"
— Oscar Wilde

tags: love
390 people liked it

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: temptation
358 people liked it

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: saint, sinner
412 people liked it

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: laughter, truth
290 people liked it

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: humor
201 people liked it

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: emotions, mercy
183 people liked it

"I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could"
— Oscar Wilde

55 people liked it

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: devil, hell, world
67 people liked it

"To define is to limit."
— Oscar Wilde

35 people liked it

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
2,599 people liked it

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent
953 people liked it

"We need never be ashamed of our tears"
— Charles Dickens

91 people liked it

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
— Charles Dickens

91 people liked it

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
— Charles Dickens

72 people liked it

"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."
— Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)

tags: classic
60 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
3,068 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
773 people liked it

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

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

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."
— Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

tags: humor, science
439 people liked it

"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

197 people liked it

"There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist."
— Terry Pratchett

112 people liked it

"It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it.

Which kind of explained why she was such a bitch most of the time."
— Cecily von Ziegesar (Because I'm Worth It)

tags: girl, gossip
43 people liked it

"Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?"
— Cecily von Ziegesar (It Had to Be You)

4 people liked it

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: infinity
375 people liked it

"I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

133 people liked it

"Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading
849 people liked it

"I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies."
— Lemony Snicket (The Penultimate Peril)

tags: humor
441 people liked it

"The moral of Snow White is never eat apples."
— Lemony Snicket

321 people liked it

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: family, friends, parties, social
1,013 people liked it

"All we have is to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: adventuring, death, screenplay
811 people liked it

"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)

tags: lotr, war
274 people liked it

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

104 people liked it

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