Choice Quotes

"Mirrors are the doors through which death comes and goes. Look at yourself in a mirror all your life, and you'll see death at work, like bees in a hive of glass."

~ Jean Cocteau, Orpheus

"There's the Devil to pay and he can keep the change."

~ J.G. Thirwell

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

~ Upton Sinclair

"The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost."

~ John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley

"Her father was not a coherent human being, he was a roomful of old echoes."

~ DH Lawrence, Women in Love

"There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist."

~ Terry Pratchett

"I shit on God, on Jesus, on the cross, on the carpenter who made the cross, and on the son of a whore who planted the pine."

~ Old Catalan Curse

"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."

~ Arthur Rimbaud

"The future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed."

~ William Gibson

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."

~ Oscar Levant

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."

~ Mark Twain

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

~ George Bernard Shaw

"Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty."

~ Stanislaw J. Lec

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up."

~ GK Chesterton

"Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?"

~ WC Fields

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true."

~ Robert Wilensky