Words worth keeping
2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.
Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
So many books, so little time.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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.