“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
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“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”
Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose
Variant: Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”" -
Source: The Name of the Rose
“people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives”
Helen Prejean (1939) advocate for the abolition of the death penalty
“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
“A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”
Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”
Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs
Source: The Silence of the Lambs
“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.”
Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 282, said by Úrsula
“Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Source: The Favorite Game
“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
“You and I share the same DNA.
Is there anything more lonely than that?”
Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter
Source: Adaptation.: The Shooting Script
“For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.”
Variant: For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
Source: One False Note
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”
Mark Twain book Pudd'nhead Wilson
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson
“I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.”
Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Richelieu
Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.
Richelieu (1839)