“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
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“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Lord Goring, Act III
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Variant: The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
No known source in Oscar Wilde's works. Earliest known example of a similar quote comes from a 2001 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.atheism/ZadPWBw-wew/G_3tx370wpoJ (not attributed to Wilde) <br class="br">Attributed to Wilde on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15736-i-don-t-want-to-go-to-heaven-none-of-my?page=83 some time on or before January 2008. <br class="br">Bears some resemblance to Machiavelli's deathbed dream https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Disputed. <br class="br">Disputed
“How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?”
Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Pt. V, st. 14
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Duchess of Padua
“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington, Act III
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves.”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
" Explorations in the Great Tuolumne Cañon http://books.google.com/books?id=ZikGAQAAIAAJ&pg=P139", Overland Monthly, volume XI, number 2 (August 1873) pages 139-147 (at page 146); modified and reprinted in John of the Mountains (1938), page 77 <br class="br">1870s
“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Variant: Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
“There is a human tendency to desire and even artificially create a sense of certainty.”
Mike Rother (1958) American business academic