Winston Churchill

• "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
• "I am easily satisfied with the very best."
• "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
• "If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised."

Susanna Clarke

• “To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.”

e. e. cummings

• "The earth laughs in flowers."
• "The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."
• "Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense."

Emily Dickinson

• "Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."

Albert Einstein

• "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
• "To be great is to be misunderstood."

Benjamin Franklin

• "Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security."
• "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

Mahatma Gandhi

• "Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

• "Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."

Franz Kafka

• "All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• "Music is the universal language of mankind."

Friedrich Nietzsche

• "I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
• “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
• “The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

Dorothy Parker

• "I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."
• "You can drag a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
• "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
• "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard."
• "Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."

Edgar Allan Poe

• "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

David Sedaris

• "I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."

Shakespeare

• "Listen to many, speak to a few."

George Bernard Shaw

• "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
• "People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person."
• "The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."
• "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

J.R.R. Tolkien

• "Not all those who wander are lost."

Voltaire

• "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
• "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
• "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Walt Whitman

• "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."

Gin Wigmore

• 'Everybody's doing it so why the hell should I."

Oscar Wilde

• "The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
• "Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes."
• "Everything popular is wrong."
• “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
• “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
• “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
• “Only the shallow know themselves.”
• “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
• "A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
• "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

Virginia Woolf

• “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."