Quotes by Writers

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Success Best Respect Advice Respectfully Exact Exact Opposite Having Doing Opposite Very Owe Going Going Away Listened Then Away

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art Experience Long Enough Lying Draw Pencil Would Would-Be Only Perfect Colored Had Supreme Altogether Bed Ceiling

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sports Way Expensive Regard Golf Marbles Playing

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Heart Eye Through Road Does Go Intellect

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. H. L. Mencken

Faith Defined Occurrence Improbable May Illogical Belief

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. H. L. Mencken

Believe Follies Costly True Most Occupation Passionately Chief Mankind

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. H. L. Mencken

Love Woman Love Is Delusion Another Differs

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. Helen Hunt Jackson

Fruit Down Corn Trees Bending Brown Yellow Turning Apple

When Time is spent, Eternity begins. Helen Hunt Jackson

Time Spent Begins Eternity

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference. Hugh Prather

Me Man Hate Better Feedback Negative Long Would Hates Rather He Make Make A Difference None Overlook Than Difference

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen

World Half Other Pleasures One Half Understand Cannot

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. Jane Austen

You Able About More Talk Loved Might Less

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself. Jessica Valenti

Love Truth You Truth Is Yourself People Better Be Yourself Few Busy Everyone Both Likable Like Liked Known Because Impossibility Than Forget Few People Being To Love Personally Us Fully Professionally Need

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff. John Grisham

You Money Real Estate Lawyer Down Books Wills About Guys Steal Lawyers Write Take Nobody Stuff Read Does Real Off Sell Want Estate Wants Interesting Who Fun Fun Stuff Street Honest Loans

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. John Lyly

Life Honesty True True Measure Length Measure

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. John Ruskin

Reward Become Highest Person Get Toil

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. John Ruskin

Man Wrapped Pretty Small He Himself Makes Up Package