Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Edgar Allan Poe

Ah! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public's voice; The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please must please to live.

Samuel Johnson

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

Arthur Smith

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

William Wordsworth

Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

Sarah Dessen

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

W. G. Sebald

I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Angeline M. Bishop

Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

Steven Wright

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

G. K. Chesterton

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Marilyn vos Savant

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

Willem de Kooning

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Camille Anna Paglia