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1205 Critic Quotes

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Divorce World Tragedy Necessarily
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You can cover a great deal of country in books.

You Cover Great Deal
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For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!

For Told Good Deeds
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He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.

He Statistics Drunken Support
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Handing her the feather of the blue falcon, which she held by the tip and gazed at

Handing Feather Blue Held
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Get away out of my country at once, and for ever, miserable creature, lest I take your life, and so rid myself of your malice.

Away Country Miserable Creature
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Here stand my books, line upon line They reach the roof, and row by row, They speak of faded tastes of mine, And things I did, but do not, know.

Books Roof Speak Faded
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So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.

Labour Alphabet Learning Lands
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Indeed it is impossible to set limits to such coincidence, for it would indeed be extraordinary if extraordinary coincidences never occurred.

Indeed Impossible Limits Coincidence
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Life's more amusing than we thought.

Life's More Than Thought
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He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

He Missed Invaluable Opportunity
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remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Remember Danger Most Feared
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In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

Litrature Love One Speak
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

I read Can live One life One place
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

Beginning Think How much Love someone
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Very difficult Live Among people You love
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

Never Believed One chance I get
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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about.

Sad thing This world The acts Take
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People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.

People Always call Luck Acted
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

A woman Who discovered Had turned wrong person
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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

Struck her Dealing Human beings Awful lot
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When you have children, you're obligated to live.

Have children You're obligated To live
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

He wished Inhabited Life Better
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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

Bravest thing About people Loving Mortal beings
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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

You never Did anything Couldn't undo End up
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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

True life End up Just do The best
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But it has occurred to me, on occasion, that our memories of our loved ones might not be the point. Maybe the point is their memories,all that they take away with them.

On occasion Our memories Loved ones The point
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

Very thing Attracts you Someone Putting
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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

No couple Buying wedding rings Be reminded To accept
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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.

She thought A clean Simple life Have led
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It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it’s all going to end.

It make You wonder Bother accumulating We know
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I write because I want to have more than one life.

I write Want to Have more One life
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She collected and polished resentments as if it were some kind of hobby.

She collected Polished resentments Some kind Hobby
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I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life

Was born The impression What happened In books
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Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

Etiquette book Runaway wives
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Past is past,no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.

Past People Always fond Saying that
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Apparently you grow to love whom you're handed.

Apparently You grow To love Handed
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I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

Was born The impression What happened In books
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Sometimes he fantasied that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.

Sometimes Fantasied The end His life
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Those who forget the past tend to regret the future
Forget The past Tend to Regret
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The trouble with dying is you don't get to stay around and see how everything turns out.

The trouble With dying Is you How everything
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

Literature Art Writing Read
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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion.

We Select Illusion Appeals
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No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

Education Worth Teach Lesson
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Nice Younger Ones Writing
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We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.

Fear Hate Child Man
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Happiness is in the imagination. What we perform is always inferior to what we imagine.

Happiness Imagination Perform Inferior
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.

Life Wrong turrning Learnt Walk
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

We Lie Truth Bitter
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Talks Order People Control
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