Quotes - Julia McDermott Showing 1-30 of 100

#1

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith

tags: life, reading

#2

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: love

2733 likes

#3

“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

tags: better-life-empathy

18425 likes

#4

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

10862 likes

#5

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

tags: thinking

7720 likes

#6

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

tags: self

2001 likes

#7

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

tags: life, world

2696 likes

#8

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

5169 likes

#9

“Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

1106 likes

#10

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

3851 likes

#11

“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: love

1553 likes

#12

“Best advice I've ever received: Finish.”
― Peter Mayle

36 likes

#13

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

5115 likes

#14

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12185 likes

#15

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

9728 likes

#16

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

1637 likes

#17

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs”
― Henry Ford

236 likes

#18

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

1792 likes

#19

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

1468 likes

#20

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

2855 likes

#21

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

1294 likes

#22

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

tags: angels, caution, delicacy, fearlessness, fools, indiscretion

1923 likes

#23

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

4098 likes

#24

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

3238 likes

#25

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: books

2849 likes

#26

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash

933 likes

#27

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

tags: life

2860 likes

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