Ruth > Ruth's Quotes

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.”
― Barbara Pym, Excellent Women

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”
― Debbie Macomber

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

(Little Gidding)”
― T.S. Eliot

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris

“Human life has always been lived on the edge of precipice. Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would have never begun. We are mistaken when we compare war with "normal life." Life has never been normal.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory