Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Oscar Wilde

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Patrick Ness

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

Patrick Rothfuss

My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.

Patrick Rothfuss

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

Patrick Rothfuss

Could you help me catch the moon?” “I might be able to give you some advice,” the old man said reluctantly. “But first you should think this over, boy. When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you’ll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

Patrick Rothfuss

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

Patrick Rothfuss

So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

Patch Adams

I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where

Pam Brown

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

Lily Collins

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.

Lillian Hellman

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

Lea Salonga

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

Leigh Hunt

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Leigh Hunt

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Lauren Oliver

I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.

Lauren Oliver

And I love you too.” His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. “You should know that. You have to know that.

Lauren Oliver

Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life.

Lauren Oliver

He was still in love with you, anyway.

Lauren Oliver

I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.

Lauren Oliver

I love you. They can't take it away.

Lauren Oliver

No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.

Lauren Oliver

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

Lauren Oliver

I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.

Lauren Oliver

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

Lauren Oliver

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

L. Frank Baum

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

L. Frank Baum

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

Pablo Picasso

I have had no true friends, only lovers.