#quotations

Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #humorous-quotations #ironic #irony #death

Intelligence is being intelligent enough to know you're not so intelligent as you intelligently once thought. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#humorous-quotations #philosophical #humor

Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#humor

I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is introspective, and I want to introspect. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#sherlock-holmes #music

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#books #good #good thing #man #quotations

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. ↗

— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#insulting #point #quotations #use #words

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ↗

— Orson Welles

#order #quotations #recognize #shakespeare #sit

A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, "Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies?" "I do not have to forgive all my enemies," answered the stateman, "I have had them all shot. ↗

— Robert Greene

#forgiveness

Romeo, o Romeo, wherefore art thou o Romeo? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#art

They verbally attacked each other with Mao's quotations, making cynical use of his guru-like elusiveness--it was easy to select a quotation of Mao's to suit any situation, or even both sides of the same argument. ↗

— Jung Chang

#quotations #change