Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

— Coco Chanel
Self & Identity Women

Compassion is the basis of morality.

— Arthur Schopenhauer
Kindness

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

— Oscar Wilde
Humor

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

— Confucious
Art & Beauty

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

— Oscar Wilde
Books & Writing

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

— David Mitchell
Love Books & Writing

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

— Benjamin Franklin
Education & Knowledge

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.

— Lady Gaga
Trust

You can't stop the futureYou can't rewind the pastThe only way to learn the secret...is to press play.

— Jay Asher
Change & Growth

It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.

— Cassandra Clare
General

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

— Oprah Winfrey
Life Dreams Time

People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Love Friendship

Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.

— Jennifer L. Armentrout
Humor

But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.

— John Green
General

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

— Milan Kundera
Relationships

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.