Erin > Erin's Quotes

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
― Graham Greene

“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“Whereas we can say something sensible and polite to any stranger, it is only in the presence of the lover we wholeheartedly believe in that can we date to be extravagantly and boundlessly unreasonable.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“O God, make me good, but not yet.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is.”
― Paulo Coelho , The Alchemist