Quotes, Catchphrases & One-liners

Famous Quotes. Thoughtful Quotes. Character Catchphrases. Witty One-Liners.

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment.

What is life but a series of inspired follies?

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion.

The world belongs to you for a season.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Repression is the only lasting philosophy.

Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities.

Do it to Julia!

George Orwell, 1984.

The only right thing to do is to learn how to deal with the situation as it is.

Franz Kafka, The Trial.

RECALLED TO LIFE!

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment.

Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

And none are left to please when none are left to love.

Lord Byron, Childe Harold