- "If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it."
- Polyanna, 1960 film
- (though it's often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
- "She has a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
- W. Somerset Maugham
- "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It
- "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It
- "There is nothing to writing, all you do is sit at a typewriter and bleed."
- Unknown
- (sometimes attributed to Ernest Hemingway)
- "And what should they know of England who only England know?"
- Rudyard Kipling, The English Flag, Stanza 1 (1891)
- "Football is not a matter of life and death. It is much more important than that."
- Bill Shankly
- "When you take a picture in color you show the color of someone’s clothes. When you take a picture in black and white you show the color of their soul."
- Ted Grant
- "Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
- Jonathan Swift, A Supplement to Dr. Swift's Works
- (In response to being asked if he was gay): "That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water."
- Alan Bennett
- "Le monde est mal fait" / "The world is badly made"
- French saying
- "I quote others only the better to express myself."
- Michel de Montaigne
- "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."
- James Baldwin
- "Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them."
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