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4391 Novelist Quotes

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Creation Even Her Higher
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Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

Believe Going Illusion Like
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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

Able Affairs Alone Casual
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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
History Ideas Mankind The History Of
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Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Action Confounded Drama Philosophy
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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

Achieve Form I Wish Myself
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When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Humanity Love Satisfied Say
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You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Count Feel Illusion Like
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Alone Bread Creature Lives
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Day Each Harvest Judge
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Friend Gift Give You
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Business Continue Fail Good
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Care Cultivate Eyes Garden
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Cruelest Lies Often Silence
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Between Come Difference Dinner
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Change Changes Does Essence
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Accept Actually Challenge Full
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Any Apart Fame Gods
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Dead Finds Language Prepared
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Become Becoming Capable End
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Friendship Marriage Police Recognized
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Everyone lives by selling something.

Everyone Lives Selling Something
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Books Enough Good Life
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Foreign Lands Only Traveler
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Cannot Clock Fortune Frightened
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Necessary Only Perhaps Politics
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Ashamed Know Parliament
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Business Calls Devotion His
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Body Come Crying House
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Cases Dies Hard Man
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Banquet Consequences Down Everybody
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Action Appears Good Inevitable
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Wine is bottled poetry.
Bottled Poetry Wine
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Another Endless Happily Leading
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No man is useless while he has a friend.

Friend He Man Useless
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Almost Friend He Indispensable
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Liberty Money Pay Price
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Enemy Friends Suppressed Truth
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Full Happy Kings Number
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Give Giving Love Loving
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Best Find Friend Honest
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Friends He His Man
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Affect Difficulty Him Literature
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Ancestors Each His Own
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Cathedral Churches Favorite Great
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Devil Sometimes Thing Very
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Beings Evil Good Human
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Correction Eye Friend Know
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Absences Bright Delicate Good
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Almost Friend He Indispensable
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