Category: writer
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
J. K. Rowling
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Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
Fran Lebowitz
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I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
Kurt Vonnegut
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We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
J. K. Rowling
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.
Joyce Meyer
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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
Virginia Woolf
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Rudyard Kipling