Leonard Gaya > Leonard's Quotes

“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

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“Mr. Gonzalez was careful, and for careful people, life has the tendency to take on the character of an almost arid plain, with only here and there, at wide intervals, the solitary palm tree and its shadow and the spring alongside it.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio