Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
My education and background thoroughly inform my writing
Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Four is a powerful figure in literature and physical form
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.