Mel Aras > Mel's Quotes

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

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

“I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.”
― William Boyd, Any Human Heart

“We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.”
― William Boyd, Any Human Heart