Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

Jonathan Coe

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.

Samuel Richardson

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

Samuel Richardson

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Samuel Richardson

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

Samuel Richardson

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Anthony Burgess

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

Wilkie Collins

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

Wilfrid Sheed

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Kingsley Amis

No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare

Alan Bennett

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Agnes Repplier

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Charles Lamb

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Charles Baudelaire

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything.

David Brooks

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Billy Collins

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.