Can anyone provide some good quotes from literature/books?

Question

it can be on any subject, just something you like. and give me the book/author too

Answer 1

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." Jane Austen~PRIDE AND Prejudice

Answer 2

My all time favorite is the following from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Exactitude in some small matters is the very soul of discipline.

If you want others, any bookstore or library will have a book (Little, Brown publishes one) full of quotes and suggestions on times to use them!

Answer 3

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." Jane Austen Pride and Predudice

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness. Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers

Answer 4

"We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War is a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."

"It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything."

"I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything."

All from fight club the book

Answer 5

"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice and just as the touch on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart."
This is by Gilbert HIGHET, a Scottish-American classicist (1906-78). He's a very popular person amongst the Scottish and Americans.

Answer 6

What If... by Robert Cowley (Editor)
"...milliseconds influence centuries."

Prey by Michael Crichton
"We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own."

Castle Roogna by Piers Anthony
"The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward."

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
"No taskmaster is harsher than one's own self-expectations."

The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
"Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison, and are so afraid of being taken in [be trickery] that they cannot be taken out."

Answer 7

Upon this a question arises: whether it is better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.

-Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince


Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees

-Terry Pratchett, Men At Arms

Answer 8

Here are all my favorites!


“I think we are created deep and simple. Society doesn't nurture that. Society nurtures shallow and complicated"
-Fred Rogers, Founder and Mayor of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood


"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us. It is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others."
-Nelson Mandela

The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it. - Albert Einstein.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

- Albert Einstein.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving

- Albert Einstein.




We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly

- Sam Keen.


Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

- Buddha

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.


No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

- Buddha. Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation

- Mark Twain.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

- Robert Motherwell.

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

African Proverb


Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

- John Cotton Dana.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.

- Mark Twain

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

- John Mayer.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

- Epicurus. Greek philosopher, BC 341-270

Every day should be a good day to die.
Dave Matthews

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

- Plato.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

- Zig Ziglar

Never mistake motion for action.

- Ernest Hemingway.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

- Saint Augustine

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

- Charles Caleb Colton

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master

- Ernest Hemingway.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

- Judy Garland.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won

- Winston Churchill

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

- Napoleon Hill

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

- Oscar Wilde

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

- Henry David Thoreau

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

- Arnold H. Glasgow.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

- Pietro Aretino.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche


You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

- Buddha


I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

--Javan

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.


- Ralph Waldo Emerson



The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

- Richard Moss.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

- Pericles. Athenian statesman and politician, 495-425ac

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.

- Ethan Embry.

The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself

- Friedrich Nietzsche. German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

- Buddha.

Answer 9

One of my all time favorite quotes from classic literature is from William Shakespeare in Hamlet:

"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Answer 10

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neither a borrower nor a lender be
William Shakespeare [Hamlet]