Quotes by Novelists

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. Ernest Hemingway

War Prosperity Political Inflation First Nation Ruin Temporary Both Economic Permanent Currency Refuge Second Bring Panacea

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? George Sand

Jealousy is the fear of comparison. Max Frisch

Jealousy Fear Comparison

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. William Makepeace Thackeray

Me You Paradise Think Look Am

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep. E. W. Howe

Wise Man Half Secret Secrets He May Who Keep

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe. Elie Wiesel

Religion Women Political Men Men And Women Become Universe Must Because Persecuted Women Are Political Views Wherever Center Place Race Views Moment

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. Paulo Coelho

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. Elie Wiesel

Gratitude Humanity Something Missing His Person Her

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Privacy Soul People Invaded Refuge Modest Sarcasm Last

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good Communication Good And Evil Words Innocent Evil Become Potent Combine Powerless Knows How Dictionary Hands Them Standing Who

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! Charles Dickens

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Honore de Balzac

Soul Marriage Believe Immortality Should

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings. Paulo Coelho

Life Attitude You Political Everybody Say Silent Something Parliament Deal How Go Surroundings Person Whether Your

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. Miguel de Cervantes

Success Impossible Must Attain Attempt Absurd Order

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley

Religion Solitude Mind Will More Powerful Towards Original Incline

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome. Amelia Barr

Kindness Welcome Always Fashionable

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. Ayelet Waldman

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Fyodor Dostoevsky

World Unsaid Come Because Left Unhappiness Much Things