Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

— John Green
General

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

— Victor hugo
Books & Writing Art & Beauty

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

— Albert Einstein
Life

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

— William Styron
Books & Writing

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

— Joe Klaas
Truth Freedom

Do you hate people?�“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

— Charles Bukowski
Humor

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

— C.E.M. Joad
Humor

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

— Anne Frank
Life Philosophy Society & Politics Positive Thinking Nature & World

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

— Charlotte Brontë
Self & Identity Truth Women Freedom

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

— Lemony Snicket
Humor

Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?""If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.

— Cassandra Clare
General

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

— C.S. Lewis
Books & Writing

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.

— Frederick Lewis Donaldson
Self & Identity Science Education & Knowledge Society & Politics Happiness

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

— Albert Camus
Happiness

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

— George Eliot
Inspirational

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.