Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.

— Langston Hughes
Inspirational Dreams Education & Knowledge Wisdom Hope

Never memorize something that you can look up.

— Albert Einstein
Humor Science

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

— J.K. Rowling
Kindness Relationships

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi
Kindness Courage & Strength

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

— Edgar Allan Poe
Dreams

Peace begins with a smile..

— Mother Teresa
Inspirational Society & Politics Happiness

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

— J.R.R. Tolkien
General

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

— C.S. Lewis
Faith & Religion

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

— Gustave Flaubert
Inspirational Life Books & Writing

I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

— Stephenie Meyer
Dreams Hope

We came to see Jace. Is he alright?""I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?

— Cassandra Clare
General

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

— Markus Zusak
Love

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

— John Green
Inspirational

Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?""Yes.""You called her a liar?""Yes.""You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?""Yes.""Have a biscuit, Potter.

— J.K. Rowling
Humor

Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.

— J.K. Rowling
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.