The best quotes on Books

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

As a burglar I was worthless, but as a liar I must confess that I have always been an artist.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

He felt at peace; he was living one of those moments of existence that offers a sole alternative: losing control of ones actions.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

One day, though, the look of a stranger nails you to te wall. A person lightly brushes you and unexpectedly, in a moment, you avert a sensation never felt before in all your life. A feeling that almost scares you, more powerful than your certainties and your values, the same ones you've sustained and for which you've always fought for.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

It's a lot more difficult judging yourself than others, if you can judge yourself well it means you must be very wise.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

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

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They are but blank cheques.

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

You must put up with caterpillars if you want to see butterflies... They say they're so lovely!

• Add to Bookmarks
• Read and discuss

It's not what you did in your past life that influences your present, but it's what you do in your present life that remedies the past and will logically change the future.