Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

— Winston S. Churchill
Humor

I don't want to die without any scars.

— Chuck Palahniuk
Death & Loss

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Courage & Strength Positive Thinking

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

— Mark Twain
Truth Books & Writing

If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.

— William Shakespeare
Art & Beauty Relationships

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald
General

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

— J.R.R. Tolkien
Wisdom

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

— Mark Twain
Inspirational Death & Loss

Angry people are not always wise.

— Jane Austen
Wisdom

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

— Confucious
Wisdom

What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

— John Green
General

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

— Mother Teresa
Inspirational Love

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

— C.S. Lewis
Faith & Religion Kindness

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

— Mortimer J. Adler
Books & Writing

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

— Louisa May Alcott
Books & Writing

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.