Hope Cavendish > Hope's Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“From your parents, you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.”
― Helen Hayes

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Lest soviel ihr könnt! Lest Straßenschilder und Speisekarten, lest die Anschläge im Bürgermeisteramt, lest von mir aus Schundliteratur - aber lest! Lest! Sonst seid ihr verloren!”
― Walter Moers, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“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: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
― Mae West

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.”
― Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich's ABC