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Speech given at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941. Quoted in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 23
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Źródło: Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
Kontekst: Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Źródło: Works of Samuel Johnson

Anonymous advertising copywriter for Menards chain of hardware stores (2000), according to Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/20/be-yourself
Misattributed

Źródło: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Źródło: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Źródło: Homo Faber (1957)

Źródło: An Autobiography

As translated by Katharine Lyttelton, in Joubert : A Selection from His Thoughts (1899)
Źródło: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 121; this likely derives from the observation of Joseph Joubert: The goal is not always meant to be reached, but to serve as a mark for our aim.

Hercule Poirot
Źródło: Murder on the Orient Express (1934)

Wariant: Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Źródło: Sense and Sensibility

Źródło: Alice in Zombieland

Letter to Isham Reavis (5 November 1855)
1850s
Kontekst: If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

Wariant: There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Źródło: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Kontekst: Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Źródło: Think and Grow Rich

Źródło: Walden

Źródło: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Ch 43
Źródło: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Źródło: Les Fleurs du Mal

Wariant: If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
Źródło: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

A Memorable Fancy
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)

Źródło: Everything Is Illuminated

Źródło: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Wariant: Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Źródło: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow (1955), Speaker's Book of Epigrams and Witticisms
Misattributed

The Adventures of Sally (1922)
Źródło: Mostly Sally

Źródło: Monstrous Regiment

Źródło: Measure for Measure

Wariant: And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.

Attributed to Irving as early as 1883. [Hit and miss : a story of real life, Angie Stewart, Manly, Chicago, J.L. Regan, 1883, i, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435018229575?urlappend=%3Bseq=7] However, it does not seem to appear in Irving's known works. Other citations from the same year leave the quotation unattributed. [Henry S. (ed.), Clubb, The Peacemaker and Court of Arbitration, Volume 1, Universal Peace Union, 1883, 125, Philadelphia, https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu84AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA125] [The Australian Women's Magazine and Domestic Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1883), 1883, Melbourne, 435, https://books.google.com/books?id=mq0sAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA435]. A similar passage is found in a pseudonymous novel published two years earlier in 1881: "Julia knew that sacrifices to patience are not in vain. Although they often do not produce the happiness for which they are made, they will, always, flow back and soften and purify the heart of the one who makes them". [Illma, Or, Which was Wife?, Miss, M.L.A., Cornwell & Johnson, 1881, 239, New York, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435017658592?urlappend=%3Bseq=245]
Disputed

Źródło: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Źródło: Meditations

Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Źródło: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Źródło: Hogfather

Źródło: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Źródło: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Źródło: The Alchemist

Also found in variants such as "A true friend stabs you in the front".
The earliest known example of this quote comes from Walter Winchell's syndicated newspaper column in mid-January 1955: 'On Broadway, cynically reports Jimmy Nelson, "a true friend is one who stabs you in the front"'
The earliest version of this quote found in Google Books is from 1958, where the quote "A true friend is one who stabs you in the front" is attributed to actor Steve Dunne https://books.google.com/books?id=MF5-AAAAMAAJ&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwig2JCRnKrMAhUC42MKHaNzCGsQ6AEIHDAA.
In 1981, a similar quote: "He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front" was attributed to Hollywood writer and producer Leonard Levinson https://books.google.com/books?id=Xbe8zbfuVLgC&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMjOrQnKrMAhVL2GMKHcQQDSgQ6AEIHTAA.
In 1984, an article in Ms. Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=sfIbAQAAMAAJ&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMjOrQnKrMAhVL2GMKHcQQDSgQ6AEIJzAC stated that "the Hollywood definition of a friend" was "someone who stabs you in the front".
The earliest attribution to Oscar Wilde was from 1989 https://books.google.com/books?id=CnQJAAAAIAAJ&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22+wilde&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22+wilde&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2oqLfnKrMAhVG52MKHXdPANkQ6AEIJTAC: "A good friend is one who stabs you in the front". No source was given.
Disputed
Wariant: A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Źródło: e.g. "Broadway and Elsewhere" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/3706522/, Pharos-Tribune (Logansport, IN), 1955-01-16, p. 4

Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Źródło: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

This appears to be a variation of a quote often attributed to Caskie Stinnett in 1960, "A diplomat...is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip" https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kcycAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&dq=%22A+diplomat+is+a+person+who+can+tell+you+to+go+to+hell+in+such+a+way+that+you+actually+look+forward+to+the+trip.%22 but which appears to have been in common use in the 1950s and is first recorded in the Seattle Daily Times in 1953 as "Diplomat—one who can tell you to go to hades and make you look forward to the trip". http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_diplomat_is_a_person_who_can_tell_you_to_go_to_hell_so_that_you_look_forw/
Misattributed
Wariant: Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions

Wariant: To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Źródło: Discours de réception, Séance De L'académie Française (introductory speech at a session of the French Academy), 24th December 1896, on Ferdinand de Lesseps' work on the Suez Canal.
Kontekst: To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

They Call Me Coach (1972)
Wariant: Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

Źródło: Brida

Źródło: The Power of Myth

Źródło: A Hat Full of Sky

As attributed in Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, Vol. 2 (1976) by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33; no earlier incidents have been located.
Variants:
When you label me, you negate me.
As attributed in Inner Joy (1985) by Kory Bloomfield, p 169
Disputed
Wariant: What labels me, negates me.

Źródło: Romeo and Juliet

Źródło: The Count of Monte Cristo

Źródło: Rainbows End (2006)

Paris Review interview (1958)
Kontekst: Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

Prologue
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1973)
Wariant: In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few
Źródło: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Źródło: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

As quoted in "Bradbury Still Believes in Heat of ‘Fahrenheit 451’" http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930312&slug=1689996, interview by Misha Berson, in ', credited to "Ray Bradbury, quoted by Misha Berson in Seattle Times", in "Quotable Quotes", The Reader's Digest, Vol. 144, No. 861, January 1994, p. 25 http://books.google.com/books?output=html&id=ZqqUAAAAIAAJ&q=%22people+to+stop+reading%22#search_anchor), or an indirect reference to the re-quoting in Reader's Digest (such as: The Times Book of Quotations (Philip Howard, ed.), 2000, Times Books and HarperCollins, p. 93
Variant: We're not teaching kids to read and write and think. … There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
As quoted in "At 80, Ray Bradbury Still Fighting the Future He Foresaw" http://www.raybradbury.com/articles_peoria.html, interview by Roger Moore, in The Peoria Journal Star (August 2000)
Kontekst: The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. … You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Źródło: " The Writing Life http://www.tikkun.org/mediagallery/download.php?mid=20090505114218282" (link is to PDF download), Tikkun magazine, Volume 3, Number 6, 1988

Wariant: When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.

Źródło: Meditations

Wariant: Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym…
Źródło: 'Salem's Lot

Not a Kerouac quote, but by Jon Krakauer, from his nonfiction book Into the Wild (1996).
Misattributed
Źródło: On the Road

Wariant: A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.