Maja > Maja's Quotes

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: The Nobel Prize-Winning History of World War II

“Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up some times, but, bitch, nobody kills the motherfucking Rooster. You know what I'm saying?”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“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”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
― Groucho Marx

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
― Winston S. Churchill, Wealth, War and Wisdom

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
― Mae West

“He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
― Billy Wilder

“I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”
― Stephen Bishop