Quotes

I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?

—Andy Warhol, 1970

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

—John Wilkes Booth, 1865

Everyone lives by selling something.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

—Edward Gibbon, 1788

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

—George Eliot, 1872

It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.

—Margaret Atwood, 2000

The day unravels what the night has woven.

—Walter Benjamin, 1929

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

—Rose Macaulay, 1925

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889

Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

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