Peter > Peter's Quotes

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
― Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
― Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères

“If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
― George Burns

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
― China Miéville, King Rat

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”
― Robert Benchley, My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

“Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.”
― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Tis the night—the night
Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
Ye think that without,
The wild winds shout,
But no, it is they—it is they!”
― Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Halloween: A Romaunt

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred