WITTY BOOK QUOTES

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The things we do for love.” – George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” – Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“A woman’s mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is always something at the very bottom to surprise you.” – Billy Connolly, The Baboons Who Went This Way and That: Folktales from Africa

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

“All generalizations are false, including this one.” – Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.” – Rodney Dangerfield, It’s Not Easy Bein’ Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring.” – Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running QUOTES ON PHYSICAL RELATIONSHIP

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” – Timothy Leary, Chaos and Cyber Culture

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” – Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“I’m not young enough to know everything.” – J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

“I can resist anything except temptation.” – Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

“We are all fools in love.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” – Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” – Albert Einstein

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest