Muriel > Muriel's Quotes

“The kindest interpretation would be: 'Hope springs eternal.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?' He asked Isabelle. 'They are built to make to make you laugh, like the mouse here, or to tell the time, like clocks, or to fill you with wonder, like the automaton. Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do.”
― Brian Selznick

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde