Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

Oscar Wilde

Genius lasts longer than beauty

Oscar Wilde

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Lucretius

These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.

Lorrie Moore

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Nicole Krauss

I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.

Mark Twain

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

John Green

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

John Green

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

John Green

What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

P. G. Wodehouse

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.

Ovid

Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]

Marya Mannes

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.

Oswald Chambers

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Michel de Montaigne

All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.

Markus Zusak

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

Mario Batali

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Mario Batali

My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.

Chris Rock

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

George Pataki

Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.

John Ruskin

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."

Edward Bond

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Julie Bishop

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

Thierry Henry

We all love the first Rocky, but I’m not too sure about the last one.

Therese of Lisieux

My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

Terry Pratchett

The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.

Simon Sinek

We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.

Rick Riordan

i love to read and you should read percy kackson & the olympians the last one the best