Quotes

Words worth keeping

2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.

— Kiera Cass
General

Demons run when a good man goes to warNight will fall and drown the sunWhen a good man goes to warFriendship dies and true love liesNight will fall and the dark will riseWhen a good man goes to warDemons run, but count the costThe battle's won, but the child is lost

— Steven Moffat
General

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

— George Carlin
Humor

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

— Bram Stoker
General

Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones.""You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.

— J.K. Rowling
Humor

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

— George Washington Burnap
Inspirational Happiness

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

— Samuel Beckett
General

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational Courage & Strength

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

— Isaac Asimov
Humor Books & Writing

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

— Robert Frost
General

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

— J.K. Rowling
Humor

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

— Lauren Oliver
General

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

— Emily Brontë
Love

Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

— Frank Kaiser
Relationships Women

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

— Robin Williams
Humor

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.