Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

— Pearl S. Buck
General

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

— William Shakespeare
General

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

— Federico García Lorca
General

Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.

— Cassandra Clare
General

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald
General

And so it goes...

— Kurt Vonnegut
General

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Inspirational Life

There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. "Is this the moment?" Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. "OI! There's a war going on here!" Ron and Hermione broke apart, their arms still around each other. "I know, mate," said Ron, who looked as though he had recently been hit on the back of the head with a Bludger, "so it's now or never, isn't it?" "Never mind that, what about the Horcrux?" Harry shouted. "D'you think you could just --- just hold it in, until we've got the diadem?" "Yeah --- right --- sorry ---" said Ron, and he and Hermione set about gathering up fangs, both pink in the face.

— J.K. Rowling
Love Society & Politics Relationships

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

— Oscar Wilde
General

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

— Paulo Coelho
Sadness & Pain Fear

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Kindness Positive Thinking Happiness

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

— Vincent Willem van Gogh
Inspirational Dreams Art & Beauty

Forever is composed of nows.

— Emily Dickinson
General

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

— Leonardo da Vinci
Inspirational

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

— Oscar Wilde
General

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.