We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

Charles Baudelaire

It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

Vladimir Lenin

Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

Henry David Thoreau

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

H. L. Mencken

My family background was deeply Christian.

Abbe Pierre

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

Kelly Osbourne

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Josh Billings

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

John Edward Masefield

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

Ian Mcewan

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Neil Gaiman